Auxiliary field information

In physics, and especially quantum field theory, an auxiliary field is one whose equations of motion admit a single solution. Therefore, the Lagrangian describing such a field $A$ contains an algebraic quadratic term and an arbitrary linear term, while it contains no kinetic terms (derivatives of the field):

{\mathcal {L}}_{\text{aux}}={\frac {1}{2}}(A,A)+(f(\varphi ),A).

The equation of motion for $A$ is

A(\varphi )=-f(\varphi ),

and the Lagrangian becomes

{\mathcal {L}}_{\text{aux}}=-{\frac {1}{2}}(f(\varphi ),f(\varphi )).

Auxiliary fields generally do not propagate,^[1] and hence the content of any theory can remain unchanged in many circumstances by adding such fields by hand. If we have an initial Lagrangian ${\mathcal {L}}_{0}$ describing a field $\varphi$ , then the Lagrangian describing both fields is

{\mathcal {L}}={\mathcal {L}}_{0}(\varphi )+{\mathcal {L}}_{\text{aux}}={\mathcal {L}}_{0}(\varphi )-{\frac {1}{2}}{\big (}f(\varphi ),f(\varphi ){\big )}.

Therefore, auxiliary fields can be employed to cancel quadratic terms in $\varphi$ in ${\mathcal {L}}_{0}$ and linearize the action ${\mathcal {S}}=\int {\mathcal {L}}\,d^{n}x$ .

Examples of auxiliary fields are the complex scalar field F in a chiral superfield,^[2] the real scalar field D in a vector superfield, the scalar field B in BRST and the field in the Hubbard–Stratonovich transformation.

The quantum mechanical effect of adding an auxiliary field is the same as the classical, since the path integral over such a field is Gaussian. To wit:

\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }dA\,e^{-{\frac {1}{2}}A^{2}+Af}={\sqrt {2\pi }}e^{\frac {f^{2}}{2}}.

^ Fujimori, Toshiaki; Nitta, Muneto; Yamada, Yusuke (2016-09-19). "Ghostbusters in higher derivative supersymmetric theories: who is afraid of propagating auxiliary fields?". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016 (9): 106. arXiv:1608.01843. Bibcode:2016JHEP...09..106F. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2016)106. S2CID 256040291.
^ Antoniadis, I.; Dudas, E.; Ghilencea, D.M. (Mar 2008). "Supersymmetric models with higher dimensional operators". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008 (3): 45. arXiv:0708.0383. Bibcode:2008JHEP...03..045A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/03/045. S2CID 2491994.

[1] Fujimori, Toshiaki; Nitta, Muneto; Yamada, Yusuke (2016-09-19). "Ghostbusters in higher derivative supersymmetric theories: who is afraid of propagating auxiliary fields?". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016 (9): 106. arXiv:1608.01843. Bibcode:2016JHEP...09..106F. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2016)106. S2CID 256040291.

[2] Antoniadis, I.; Dudas, E.; Ghilencea, D.M. (Mar 2008). "Supersymmetric models with higher dimensional operators". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008 (3): 45. arXiv:0708.0383. Bibcode:2008JHEP...03..045A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/03/045. S2CID 2491994.

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