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One-flavor U(1) classical F/D-flat vacuum quotient
Exact classical tree-level calculation for a canonical rigid four-dimensional N=1 U(1) gauge-model example with one oppositely charged chiral pair, zero superpotential, and zero Fayet–Iliopoulos parameter; it says nothing about quantum corrections.
Example
Use natural units . Take the finite-dimensional scalar field space with coordinates , standard Hermitian norm, compact gauge group acting by , gauge coupling , zero superpotential , canonical scalar kinetic terms, and zero Fayet--Iliopoulos parameter. In this classical model the auxiliary maps are and . The classical supersymmetric vacuum set is therefore . The gauge-invariant coordinate gives a bijection of this orbit set with . This is a classical tree-level result and is not a claim about the quantum vacuum space.
Example references
Tong, §4.3.1, printed pp. 112–116.
Classical F/D-flat quotient and quantum-moduli boundary: Classical and quantum supersymmetric vacuum-moduli data.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The U(1) action, canonical field data, , and zero Fayet--Iliopoulos parameter in the Example.
Adopt the finite-dimensional canonical rigid U(1) classical model stated in the Example; and have mass dimension one and is dimensionless.
Classical and quantum supersymmetric vacuum-moduli data: classical vacua are the simultaneous zeros of the F and D maps, modulo the compact gauge group.
Verification
Given: [A1] and the classical vacuum-moduli definition [F1].
Since , both holomorphic derivatives vanish identically, so every is F-flat. The D equation is ; because , it is equivalent to . By [F1], the classical vacuum set is exactly that D-flat set modulo the displayed U(1) action.
The product is invariant under the action, since . It therefore defines a map from the D-flat orbit set to .
For any with , choose and . Then and ; for , choose . Thus every is attained by a D-flat pair.
If two D-flat pairs have the same product , their equal-modulus condition forces both pairs to be . If , both -entries are nonzero and have modulus ; hence their ratio is a phase , and equality of products forces the corresponding -entries to differ by . The two pairs are therefore U(1)-gauge-equivalent. The map in step 2.1 is injective as well as surjective, proving the stated bijection.