The infrared behaviour of \((\nabla \Phi)^ 4_ 3\) (Q790552)

This article presents on an example - the infinite volume limit of \((\nabla \phi)^ 4\) in three dimensions - an expansion which allows to control ultra-violet or infrared divergences as long as we are dealing with superrenormalizable problems. We obtain the leading behaviour of the correlation functions. This work has its roots in the phase space expansion of Glimm and Jaffe. The phase space is divided into discrete cells localized in space and momenta. The expansion is on the coupling between the cells. Cells of the same momentum but distinct localizations are linked by propagators. Cells of different momenta and same localization are linked by vertices which fields lie in the linked cells. Because the theory is superrenormalizable, for each phase cell it is sufficient to expand up to a finite order on the coupling between different momenta. The development takes the form of a polymer expansion. The polymers are formed with connected sets of phase cells. The theory being superrenormalizable the perturbation vertices are small thus the polymers are small provided that we regularize sub-polymers with - in the case of \((\nabla \phi)^ 4_ 3\)- 2 or 4 external fields. Thus the expansion computes the counterterms in case of ultraviolet divergences, or allows to compute the bare parameters of a theory with given physical parameters in case of an infinite volume limit. In collaboration with J. Feldman and V. Rivasseau we have shown that asymptotic freedom is in fact sufficient to obtain the convergence of this type of expansion. Similar results have been obtained by K. Gawedzki and A. Kupiainen.