Sine-Gordon vacuum tadpole counterterm

ID: sine-gordon-vacuum-tadpole-counterterm

With canonical field , the quartic interaction has coupling . Cancelling the vacuum tadpole diagram requires the divergent mass counterterm . Its kink energy is because . This cancels the logarithmic ultraviolet divergence in the one-loop soliton mass correction. Finite parts depend on the renormalization condition.

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