A connected Feynman diagram has a path between every pair of its vertices. Normalized correlation functions discard disconnected vacuum bubbles, while full correlators can still factor into disconnected components carrying external insertions.
A one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagram is a connected Feynman diagram that remains connected after any one internal line is cut. The vertices of the quantum effective action generate precisely these diagrams.
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