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Past exam of the theoretical physics major option course of the University of Oxford 2016 3 d Solution by
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Keep the same measure normalization as in the free generating functional and defineHere is the source-dependent partition function, despite the common alternative convention in which that letter denotes its logarithm. A functional derivative of brings down one factor at the differentiated point. Expanding the interaction exponential and replacing each such factor by therefore givesCompleting the square in the free Gaussian integral gives because with periodic boundary conditions. Restoring replaces the upper limit by and the interaction coefficients by and , exactly as in the source.
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