RG-Improved Three-Loop Effective Potential of the Massive $\phi^4$ theory

Abstract

The renormalization group method is applied to the three-loop effective potential of the massive $\phi^4$ theory in the $\bar{\rm MS}$ scheme in order to obtain the next-next-next-to-leading logarithm resummation. For this, we exploit four-loop parts of the renormalization group functions $\beta_\lambda$, $\gamma_m$, $\gamma_\phi$, and $\beta_\Lambda$, which were already given to five-loop order via the renormalization of the zero-, two-, and four-point one-particle-irreducible Green's functions, to solve evolution equations for the parameters $\lambda$, $m^2$, $\phi$, and $\Lambda$ within the accuracy of the three-loop order.