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A choice of renormalization conditions and finite counterterms defines a renormalization scheme. The minimal subtraction scheme removes only regulator poles; the modified minimal subtraction scheme also removes conventional universal constants. Different schemes can assign different values to renormalized couplings while describing the same physical observables after parameters are consistently matched.

A renormalized coupling is an interaction parameter defined by a specified finite renormalization condition or subtraction scheme at a scale $\mu$. Observables remain independent of that arbitrary scale when its running and the loop corrections are included consistently. The coupling itself, and higher-order coefficients in its renormalization-group beta function, can depend on the scheme; they should not be identified without qualification with a regulator-independent bare coefficient.

With canonical field $\phi =\varphi /\beta$, the quartic interaction has coupling $-m^2{\beta }^2$. Cancelling the vacuum tadpole diagram requires the divergent mass counterterm $\delta m^2=(m^2{\beta }^2/4){\int }_{-\Lambda }^{\Lambda }dk/[2\pi \sqrt{k^2+1}]$. Its kink energy is $\Delta M_{\mathrm{ct}}=4\delta m^2/(m{\beta }^2)$ because $\int (1-\cos {\varphi }_K)dx=4$. This cancels the logarithmic ultraviolet divergence in the one-loop soliton mass correction. Finite parts depend on the renormalization condition.