Related papers: Loop Expansion in Light-Cone $\phi^4$ Field Theory
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The generating functionals for the local composite operators, $\Phi^2(x)$ and $\Phi^4(x)$, are used to study excitations in the scalar quantum field theory with $\lambda \Phi^4$ interaction. The effective action for the composite operators…
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The free propagator for the scalar $\lambda \phi^4$--theory is calculated exactly up to the second derivative of a background field. Using this propagator I compute the one--loop effective action, which then contains all powers of the field…
In the study of conformal field theories, conformal blocks in the lightcone limit are fundamental to the analytic conformal bootstrap method. Here we consider the lightcone limit of 4-point functions of generic scalar primaries. Based on…