Not much can be concluded in this case, though. Of course we must not
forget that both and
are functions of
and
, in such a way that the right-hand side of this equation remains
positive for positive
.
Although this equation has the general form expected for an interacting
theory, it is crucial to note that the sign of the second term is
reversed. Since we must have , this term is necessarily
negative. This is not really all that surprising, for one must not forget
that it is not to be expected that this calculational technique can
produce predictions about
, which is a parameter related to
the fourth moment of the distribution, that is of course absent from a
Gaussian approximation. The reversed sign, that seems to indicate that
increasing
works in the way opposite to what one would expect,
appears there as a warning about this limitation. Of course, interpreting
this term as a prediction for
would be absurd, since it
would imply that the renormalized coupling constant is negative, and thus
would correspond to an unstable renormalized model.