Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 304 3 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Rescale with . After Berezin integration, the unnormalized holomorphic function insertion isIts derivative is an ordinary total derivative:The last equality again follows from polynomial growth and exponential decay. Thus the insertion is independent of , and supersymmetric localization allows evaluation as at the zeros of , as in localization of a zero-dimensional polynomial model.
For a simple zero , . The local Gaussian integral cancels the factor and contributes . For a zero with multiplicity of a root , write . Its leading radial integral isThe insertion tends to there; contributions away from the zeros vanish. Therefore the full answer, including degenerate critical points, isThis is an unnormalized expectation. For simple zeros all ; division by would give the normalized average, but is not part of the requested insertion. Taking recovers the partition function, and taking recovers its vanishing supersymmetric Ward identity.
Zero-dimensional supersymmetric field theory 2026-10-06
A zero-dimensional model is a finite-dimensional integral with bosonic and Grassmann variables, rather than a field depending on spacetime. Odd graded derivations preserve its action and integration measure. Such models expose supersymmetric Ward identities and supersymmetric localization without spacetime dynamics.