  We consider the Coulomb blockade on a superconductive quantum dot strongly
coupled to a lead through a tunnelling barrier and/or normal diffusive metal.
Andreev transport of the correlated pairs leads to quantum fluctuations of the
charge on the dot. These fluctuations result in exponential renormalization of
the effective charging energy. We employ two complimentary ways to approach the
problem, leading to the coinciding results: the instanton and the functional RG
treatment of the non-linear sigma model. We also derive the charging energy
renormalization in terms of arbitrary transmission matrix of the multi-channel
interface.
