Necessity of mixed kinetic term in the description of general system with identical scalar fields

Most general renormalizable interaction in the system with a set of scalar fields having identical quantum numbers generates naturally mixed kinetic terms in the Lagrangian. Taking into account these terms leads to modification both the renormalization group equations and the tree level analysis as compare with many published results. We obtain conditions for non-appearance of such a running mixing in some important cases. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.