  Group field theory is a generalization of matrix models, with triangulated
pseudomanifolds as Feynman diagrams and state sum invariants as Feynman
amplitudes. In this paper, we consider Boulatov's three-dimensional model and
its Freidel-Louapre positive regularization (hereafter the BFL model) with a
?ultraviolet' cutoff, and study rigorously their scaling behavior in the large
cutoff limit. We prove an optimal bound on large order Feynman amplitudes,
which shows that the BFL model is perturbatively more divergent than the
former. We then upgrade this result to the constructive level, using, in a
self-contained way, the modern tools of constructive field theory: we construct
the Borel sum of the BFL perturbative series via a convergent ?cactus'
expansion, and establish the ?ultraviolet' scaling of its Borel radius. Our
method shows how the ?sum over trian- gulations' in quantum gravity can be
tamed rigorously, and paves the way for the renormalization program in group
field theory.
