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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 304 4 b Solution by
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The product of generators satisfiesand thereforeBecause is symmetric, its contraction with the antisymmetric structure constant of a Lie algebra vanishes. Hence
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 304 4 a Solution by
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Substitution of the gauge transformations and givesA direct commutator calculation givesCovariance of the left side then implies . The cyclic property of the trace makes the traces of , , and invariant, so the Lagrangian is gauge invariant.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 304 3 c Solution by
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The scalar has canonical dimension , soThe coupling is therefore marginal in . Its leading two-point correction is the order- diagram with one six-leg vertex, two external legs, and the remaining four legs paired into two tadpole loops. This diagram is independent of external momentum, so it renormalizes the mass but has no pole and does not contribute to .
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Put . The one-loop two-point bubble has symmetry factor and, after a Feynman parameter and momentum shift, its pole is proportional toCancelling the pole in the minimal subtraction scheme gives, with ,If one defines dimensional regularization by , these same poles are written with in place of .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 304 3 a Solution by
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The first three terms are the scalar kinetic, mass, and -point interaction terms. The remaining terms are the field-strength, mass, and coupling counterterms. The momentum-space rules arefor a propagator, an -leg interaction vertex, a two-leg counterterm insertion, and an -leg counterterm vertex, respectively, together with momentum conservation at every vertex.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 304 2 d Solution by
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For momenta much smaller than ,Expanding the source functional to order , equivalently integrating out the heavy scalar by its field equation, producesThus the four-spinor coefficient is in this normalization. Since and in four dimensions, has dimension six and its coefficient has the required dimension .
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With left functional derivatives for the Grassmann sources, replace fields in the interaction by , , and . ThusThe ordering displayed fixes the Grassmann signs and makes this an explicit source functional with no dynamical fields.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 304 2 b Solution by
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The analogous Grassmann Gaussian integral, normalized by , giveswith the free Dirac propagatorIndeed .
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Completing the square in the Gaussian functional integral and choosingnormalizes . The result iswhere the Feynman propagator in the convention of the question is
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 304 1 c Solution by
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Introducing a Feynman parameter and subtracting at zero external momentum giveThe bare coupling is independent of the renormalization scale. Differentiating its logarithmic counterterm at fixed gives the leading beta function
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After Wick rotation, the zero-momentum bubble integral with cutoff regularization isThe three channels contribute . For , this is , so the zero-momentum renormalization condition is enforced byand hence . Keeping the exact cutoff expression merely replaces by the finite cutoff-dependent quantity defined by .
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The Quantum effective action contains the following diagrams. For , there are the tree inverse propagator, the one-loop tadpole at order , and at order the two-loop sunset and the two-loop tadpole with a tadpole insertion. For , there are the tree vertex and, at order , the three one-loop bubble diagrams in the , , and channels. Disconnected and one-particle-reducible graphs do not occur in the quantum effective action.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 303 3 a Solution by
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If the singular free-energy density is set by one correlated region, then . With reduced temperature , the definitions and therefore giveThis is the hyperscaling relation; it assumes that no dangerously irrelevant coupling introduces an additional scale.
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