For canonical global four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetry, define , and at a stationary vacuum. Gauge invariance of the superpotential gives , while stationarity of gives . Therefore the canonically normalized fermion mass matrix, after a harmless gaugino phase choice, obeysIf supersymmetry is broken, this vector is nonzero and specifies a massless Goldstino. The matrix with off-diagonal blocks instead acts on ; it is related to the canonical matrix by a change of normalization, not by equality of canonical entries. Additional zero modes can coexist with the Goldstino.
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