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The thesis of Pistolesi is divided into two parts. In the first part the many-electron system with grand canonical Hamiltonian \[ H=\sum_{k,\sigma}\epsilon_kc^+_{k\sigma}c_{k\sigma}+ \sum_{k,p,q}V_{k,p}c^+_{k\uparrow}c^+_{q-k\downarrow}c_{q-p\downarrow}c_{p\uparrow} \] is considered. The main concern is the computation of certain correlation functions, two- and four-point functions, from which correlation lengths are derived. The computation is done in the bosonic functional-integral representation, where two- and four-point functions are typically given by expectations of (products of) inverse matrix elements and the integration measure is given by the exponential of the effective action. The calculation is performed by expanding the effective action and the inverse matrix elements around the BCS mean field configuration (which is indeed actually the global minimum of the effective action, although this is not proven here) and then retaining terms up to second order. In the second part, the many-boson system with grand canonical Hamiltonian \[ H=\int dx \psi^+(x)[-\Delta/2m-\mu]\psi(x)+\lambda\int dx \psi^+(x)^2\psi(x)^2 \] is considered. A renormalization group analysis, in conjunction with Ward identities, is used to compute the infrared corrections to the Bogolyubov mean field results. The presentation is in the style of a physics paper.