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Past exam of the theoretical physics major option course of the University of Oxford 2016 3 e Solution by
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Set the external source to zero in solution and apply Wick's theorem. At a single quartic vertex, the four position insertions have three pairings; at a single sextic vertex, six insertions have pairings. ThusThermal time-translation invariance makes this , with from solution. If desired the absolute corrections follow by multiplying by the free partition function .
The first Vacuum Feynman diagram is one quartic vertex carrying two self-loops, with weight before time integration. The second is one sextic vertex carrying three self-loops, with weight . No disconnected subtraction is appropriate for itself. The top row of the following figure shows these first-order terms and the conventions for solution.
Quartic and sextic oscillator vacuum graphs through second order; the displayed coefficients include factorials and vertex interchange, and each vertex is integrated over the thermal circle
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