 Fayet–Iliopoulos term (source code)

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= Fayet–Iliopoulos term
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A Fayet–Iliopoulos term is a gauge-invariant term linear in the auxiliary $D$ field of an Abelian vector multiplet. Supersymmetry is broken only if no charged-scalar configuration can make the shifted D-term vanish simultaneously with every F-term.

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