Mass renormalization in the Nelson model (Q1751518)

Summary: The asymptotic behavior of the effective mass \(m_{\text{eff}}(\Lambda)\) of the so-called Nelson model in quantum field theory is considered, where \(\Lambda\) is an ultraviolet cutoff parameter of the model. Let \(m\) be the bare mass of the model. It is shown that for sufficiently small coupling constant \(\left|\alpha\right|\) of the model, \(m_{\text{eff}}(\Lambda) / m\) can be expanded as \(m_{\text{eff}}(\Lambda) / m = 1 + \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} a_n(\Lambda) \alpha^{2 n}\). A physical folklore is that \(a_n(\Lambda) = O(\left[\log\Lambda\right]^{(n - 1)})\) as \(\Lambda \rightarrow \infty\). It is rigorously shown that \(0 < \lim_{\Lambda \rightarrow \infty} a_1(\Lambda) < C\), \(C_1 \leq \lim_{\Lambda \rightarrow \infty} a_2(\Lambda) / \log \Lambda \leq C_2\) with some constants \(C\), \(C_1\), and \(C_2\).