The most usual way to renormalize quantum field theories is by re-writing the Lagrangian in terms of physical (finite) parameters plus counter-terms. Take λϕ4 theory for instance:
L=12(∂μϕ)2−m22ϕ2−λ4!ϕ4+LCT,
LCT=δZ2(∂μϕ)2−δm2ϕ2−δλ4!ϕ4.
All parameters with δ in LCT are divergent quantities. Then what we do is to treat everything in LCT as interactions and calculate it perturbatively.
My question is: how can we do that? Considering that the "couplings" in this case (δZ, δm and δλ) are huge numbers?
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