%0 Journal Article %T Regularizing the quark-level $¦Ò$ model %A R. Delbourgo %A A. A. Rawlinson %A M. D. Scadron %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1142/S0217732398001996 %X We show that the finite difference, $-i\pi^2 m^2$, between quadratic and logarithmic divergent integrals $\int d^4p[m^2(p^2-m^2)^{-2}-(p^2-m^2)^{-1}]$, as encountered in the linear $\sigma$ model, is in fact regularization independent. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9807505v1