Generalized Gaussian Effective Potential: Low Dimensional Scalar Fields

Abstract

We study a generalization of the Gaussian effective potential for self-interacting scalar fields in one and two spatial dimensions. We compute the two-loop corrections and discuss the renormalization of the generalized Gaussian effective potential.

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