Renormalization of scalar field theory

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I was reading about the renormalization of ##\phi^4## theory and it was mentioned that in order to renormalize the 2-point function ##\Gamma^{(2)}(p)## we add the counterterm :

$$\delta \mathcal{L}_1 = -\dfrac{gm^2}{32\pi \epsilon^2}\phi^2$$

to the Lagrangian, which should give rise to a propagator term of the form:

$$-\dfrac{igm^2}{16\pi^2 \epsilon}$$

that will cancel the divergent term in ##\Gamma^{(2)}(p)##. My problem is with the expression above, it's unclear to me how to reach this propagator correction just from the Lagrangian. How can this be achieved?

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vanhees71
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You don't get it directly from the Lagrangian but by calculating the "one-loop tadpole diagram" for the self-energy of the boson in dimensional regularization. For a detailed treatment, see

https://itp.uni-frankfurt.de/~hees/publ/lect.pdf

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ChrisVer
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I haven't done the calculations, but wouldn't that term give rise to a propagator as the one in the mass term?
$\frac{i}{p^2 - \mu^2 }$
But with $\mu^2 = m^2 - \frac{gm^2}{32\pi^2 \epsilon}$
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