Quantum Equivalence of Auxiliary Field Methods in Supersymmetric Theories

Abstract

Quantum corrections to Legendre transformations are shown to cancel to all orders in supersymmetric theories in path integral formalism. Using this result, lagrangians for auxiliary fields are generalized to non-quadratic forms. In supersymmetric effective nonlinear lagrangians, the arbitrariness due to the existence of quasi Nambu-Goldstone bosons is shown to disappear when local auxiliary gauge fields are introduced.

Comments: 17 pages, LaTeX, no figures, the version to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. 103 (2000)