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In spacetime dimensions, and a dimensionless action requires . Since , the canonical kinetic term fixes . The cubic and quartic terms then giveThese brackets denote mass dimensions. The cubic coupling is dimensionless at , whereas the quartic coupling is dimensionless at . Hence there is no single dimension in which both nonzero couplings are dimensionless. For example, at the cubic coupling still has mass dimension one.[ref]
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