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PhyslibAlpha.Particles.BeyondTheStandardModel.TwoHDM.ChargeBalance

Charge balancing for polynomials

If the variables of a polynomial carry charges under a phase (here a single element `c` of infinite order), then invariance under the simultaneous phase rotation `Xᵢ ↦ c^{wᵢ} Xᵢ` forces every monomial to be *charge balanced* (net charge zero). This is the algebraic content of the statement that a gauge invariant potential, restricted to a slice on which the gauge torus acts diagonally, can only contain charge-balanced monomials.

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theorem

Coefficient of a monomial under diagonal variable rescaling

Let RR be a commutative ring and σ\sigma be a set of indices for variables. For any multivariate polynomial fR[Xi]iσf \in R[X_i]_{i \in \sigma}, any scaling factors diRd_i \in R (for iσi \in \sigma), and any monomial Xm=iσXimiX^m = \prod_{i \in \sigma} X_i^{m_i} (where m:σNm: \sigma \to \mathbb{N} is a finitely supported exponent vector), the coefficient of XmX^m in the polynomial obtained by substituting diXid_i X_i for each XiX_i is given by: coeff(Xm,f(diXi))=(iσdimi)coeff(Xm,f) \text{coeff}(X^m, f(d_i X_i)) = \left( \prod_{i \in \sigma} d_i^{m_i} \right) \cdot \text{coeff}(X^m, f)

theorem

Invariance under phase rotation implies vanishing of non-charge-balanced coefficients

Let KK be a field and cKc \in K be a non-zero element of infinite order (i.e., cn=1c^n = 1 if and only if n=0n = 0 for nZn \in \mathbb{Z}). Let fK[Xi]iσf \in K[X_i]_{i \in \sigma} be a multivariate polynomial where each variable XiX_i is assigned an integer weight (or charge) wiZw_i \in \mathbb{Z}. If ff is invariant under the transformation XicwiXiX_i \mapsto c^{w_i} X_i, then for any monomial Xm=iXimiX^m = \prod_{i} X_i^{m_i} with a non-zero net charge imiwi0\sum_i m_i w_i \neq 0, the coefficient of XmX^m in ff must be zero.