 Contact term in a correlation function (source code)

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= Contact term in a correlation function

= Contact terms in a correlation function
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A contact term is a distribution supported where insertion points coincide. Its <Fourier transform> is local in momentum, typically polynomial. Renormalizing an operator product can require additive contact counterterms even if each operator has zero <anomalous dimension>.

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