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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 307 2 Solution by
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Under the Abelian supergauge transformation , the real and imaginary components of , together with and , shift and . They can be chosen to setleaving Wess-Zumino gaugeThe remaining imaginary scalar gauge parameter acts as the ordinary transformation .
The chiral field-strength superfieldis chiral and gauge invariant in the Abelian theory. Henceis supersymmetric. Its components are the Maxwell kinetic term, the gaugino kinetic term, and the auxiliary term .
For the component check, vary using and vary the gaugino term using and its conjugate. After integration by parts, the terms proportional to cancel between the two variations. The remaining terms reduce, by the stated sigma-matrix identity, to a contraction of , which vanishes by the Bianchi identity. Thus is a total divergence and the action is invariant. The auxiliary field would make this supersymmetry close off shell; setting gives the displayed on-shell transformations.
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