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Overcoming Nonrenormalizability

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A suitable counterterm for a Euclidean space lattice version of ϕ 4n theories, n⩾4, is combined with several additional procedures so that in the continuum limit the resultant quantum field theory is nontrivial. Arguments to support this unconventional choice are presented.

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    John R. Klauder

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Klauder, J.R. Overcoming Nonrenormalizability. Letters in Mathematical Physics 63, 229–239 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024407001695

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