Solution

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For the Euclidean quartic scalar field theory, expansion of gives the momentum-space rules
At one loop, the four-point one-particle-irreducible correlation function receives the three bubble diagrams in the , , and channels. If is the momentum through one channel, its contribution is
Using a Feynman parameter, shifting the loop momentum, and writing gives, up to terms caused by shifting the boundary of a hard cutoff,
Thus every channel has the logarithmic ultraviolet divergence
The complete one-loop vertex is
Let denote the bracket evaluated at the chosen on-shell kinematic point. The on-shell renormalization scheme requires , hence the perturbative solution is
The cutoff dependence of is the coupling counterterm needed to hold the measured coupling fixed.

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