title: Evaluation of the improvement parameter in the lattice Hamiltonian approach to critical phenomena.
abstract: In lattice Hamiltonian systems with a quartic coupling gamma, a critical value gamma(*) may exist such that, when gamma=gamma(*), the leading irrelevant operator decouples from the Hamiltonian and the leading nonscaling contribution to renormalization-group invariant physical quantities (evaluated in the critical region) vanishes. The 1/N expansion technique is applied to the evaluation of gamma(*) for the lattice Hamiltonian of vector spin models with O(N) symmetry. As a byproduct, systematic asymptotic expansions for the relevant lattice massive one-loop integrals are obtained.
authors.affiliation: INFN, Sezione di Pisa, and Dipartimento di Fisica "Enrico Fermi" dell'Università di Pisa, Via Buonarroti 2, I-56125 Pisa, Italy. Massimo.Campostrini@df.unipi.it
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campostrini
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parruccini
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rossi