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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 304 2 b Solution by
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The amputated connected four-point function through one loop contains the tree quartic vertex, the quartic-counterterm vertex, and three bubble diagrams in the , , and channels. The unamputated connected function also has one-loop self-energy and two-point-counterterm insertions on each external propagator, which do not determine .
For channel momentum , the bubble has symmetry factor and the Feynman parameter identity gives an integral proportional toIn dimensional regularization, , so the pole from one channel is . Summing the three crossing channels gives . The minimal subtraction scheme cancels only this pole, hence
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