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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 55 2 Solution by
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Use the canonical chiral-superfield component expansion in chiral coordinates, with . Multiplication of the Grassmann variables givesFor example, the two linear-in- factors in contribute , while each of the three choices of the remaining scalar in gives the same contribution. Thus the required F-term isAdding its Hermitian conjugate and the canonical term eliminates the auxiliary field through and yields the F-term scalar potentialIt is nonnegative, and for its absolute minima are and , each with zero energy. They coincide when . If , only is a minimum; if , every is a minimum. These exhaust the local minima as well: at any other stationary point forces ; for this is , whose quadratic variation has opposite signs in two real directions and is a saddle.
Expand around , writing . The scalar potential and fermionic terms areThe canonical kinetic term is . Its quadratic potential is , while the Weyl fermion has mass . HenceAt the other minimum, , so the same mass equality holds. The quartic and Yukawa interaction are both fixed by : defining and givesThis is the supersymmetric relation between quartic and Yukawa couplings. The printed equality of the two couplings refers to their common supersymmetric origin; literal equality of the conventional coefficients and is not true for arbitrary . If instead the Yukawa term is defined as , then and .
To establish perturbative superpotential non-renormalization, use a Wilsonian effective action with a fixed positive infrared cutoff, so integrating out modes does not introduce massless infrared singularities. Promote to nondynamical chiral superfields, or spurions. The holomorphic superpotential depends holomorphically on , not on their complex conjugates. Assign an ordinary charge and an R-charge byThe superspace coordinate has , so has charge and must have R-charge . Both original monomials satisfy the two selection rules. A holomorphic perturbative monomial must obeywhich gives and . Equivalently,The nonnegative integer follows from perturbative analyticity in . Regularity as at the fixed Wilsonian cutoff excludes , which would require negative powers of . The remaining quadratic coefficient is fixed to by the free theory at . The coefficient is : a three-point contribution at first order in has just one cubic vertex, uses all three legs externally, and cannot contain a loop. A loop correction would require additional interactions, whereas the selection rules and holomorphy have already excluded the corresponding monomials. ThereforeThis proof concerns the local Wilsonian superpotential. The Kähler potential can acquire a wave-function factor , and canonical normalization changes the couplings to and . Such running, and nonlocal infrared terms in a one-particle-irreducible action, do not contradict the holomorphic result.
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