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Chiral-coordinate solution and supersymmetry covariance
Statement
For the smooth finite Grassmann-valued superspace and left-derivative conventions in the chiral-superfield definition, the covariant derivatives obey , , and , where and is as defined there. The kernel of both consists exactly of the fields independent of when written in the nilpotently shifted coordinate ; hence every chiral field has the unique four-component expansion stated there. The supercharges anticommute with each , so the defined supersymmetry transformation preserves chirality and induces a unique smooth component transformation.
Statement references
Four-dimensional chiral superfield on flat superspace: Four-dimensional chiral superfield on flat superspace.
Four-dimensional superspace Grassmann algebra and Berezin integration: Four-dimensional superspace Grassmann algebra and Berezin integration.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Smooth coefficient functions in , the ordered four-generator Grassmann algebra, and the operators and shifted coordinate in the chiral-superfield definition.
Four-dimensional chiral superfield on flat superspace: , the left derivatives remove the specified generator with the ordered sign, and uses a finite Taylor substitution.
Associativity and coefficient calculus for the finite superspace Grassmann algebra: the four left Grassmann derivatives are odd derivations and anticommute on the finite exterior algebra.
Four-dimensional real extended super-Poincare algebra: are fixed numerical matrices and commute with all coefficient variables and spacetime derivatives.
Proof
Given: [F1]–[F3], with all spacetime derivatives acting on smooth coefficient functions.
The left derivatives with respect to distinct odd generators anticommute by [F2]; each commutes with them and with every other because the coefficient functions are smooth. Expanding the displayed formulas for and , the only nonzero mixed terms in are and . Their sum is the stated mixed anticommutator. In each same-type anticommutator, the derivative-only terms vanish by [F2], the terms with one coordinate and one derivative cancel or are zero because the differentiated coordinate is of the other type, and the products of two identical-type odd coordinates vanish after symmetrization. Thus both same-type anticommutators are zero.
With , the left derivative gives : the minus sign comes from differentiating the rightmost odd factor past the left odd . The finite Taylor definition and ordinary algebra therefore give, on functions expressed in , and . Substitution into cancels the two terms, leaving .
Direct expansion of against gives two opposite terms: and , so . All other terms vanish by the same independent-generator and odd-square identities. The two barred operators and also anticommute: their barred derivative parts anticommute, their parts anticommute, and each barred derivative anticommutes with each factor because it differentiates a different generator. Therefore whenever , accounting for the odd parameter crossing the odd derivative.
Expand a function in the unique ordered basis of with coefficients in . In coordinates, for both dotted indices means both left derivatives in the barred generators vanish. For a fixed generator, distinct basis monomials containing it map under its derivative to distinct basis monomials not containing it, with coefficients or ; hence its derivative has zero kernel exactly on the span of monomials not containing it. Applying this to both barred generators shows is independent of . The remaining ordered basis is , so its coefficients are unique and give the four displayed component functions and parities.
The transformed field is smooth because it is a finite linear combination of spacetime derivatives of smooth coefficient functions, and it is chiral by step 2.2. Applying the unique basis expansion in step 3.1 to this transformed field yields one and only one tuple of four smooth components. This is the component transformation defined in the chiral-superfield definition; no field equation or quantum operator-domain assertion is involved.