Radial critical-mass subtraction in dimensions three to five
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For , a spherical ultraviolet cutoff gives the following exact examples of the one-loop critical-mass subtraction integral:The areas of the unit spheres in dimensions three, four and five are , and . Dividing by reduces the integrals to constants times , and respectively. Elementary integration proves the formulas. As , the first has a power divergence, the second a logarithmic divergence, and the third a finite limit. These examples make the ordinary upper critical dimension four visible without treating a self-consistent one-loop equation as an exact interacting critical exponent prediction.
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