Quartic interaction
= Quartic interaction
{title2=$\phi^4$ theory}
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= Phi-fourth theory
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= Quartic scalar field theory
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Phi-fourth theory has a scalar interaction $-\lambda\phi^4/4!$. In four dimensions its coupling is classically marginal, and its one-loop four-point function receives bubble corrections in the three Mandelstam channels.