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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 43 2 d Solution by
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The Abelian field-strength chiral projection is linear in the vector superfield, so isolate the terms containing the gaugino and the auxiliary field. Replacing by leaves these terms unchanged: the shift of the gaugino term would contain three barred Grassmann variables, and the shift of the term would contain three of each chirality, hence both vanish. Their contribution is thereforeThe part of the supersymmetric covariant derivative also adds a third barred factor, so it vanishes on these two terms. The ordinary left Grassmann derivative, with , givesAt fixed , and . Thus the chiral field-strength superfield hasThe remaining components come from the other independent terms in the vector superfield; linearity ensures they cannot alter the two coefficients just calculated. This proves the requested components without computing the omitted terms. The gaugino phase and the sign of the vector component are those in the printed Wess-Zumino gauge expansion.
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