Saturday, October 12, 2019

renormalization - Why does the counterterm's propagator have inverse units of the propagator? phi4-theory


According to Peskin & Schroeder (page 325), the Feynman rule for the counterterm


 ------(x)----- 

for


12δZ(μϕr)212δmϕ2r


being ϕr the renormalized field, is given by


i(p2δZδm)


which resembles rather the (multiplicative) inverse of the propagator for the original Lagrangian (whith physical quantities). Why?




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