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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Coefficient of a monomial under diagonal variable rescaling
Let be a commutative ring and be a set of indices for variables. For any multivariate polynomial , any scaling factors (for ), and any monomial (where is a finitely supported exponent vector), the coefficient of in the polynomial obtained by substituting for each is given by:
Invariance under phase rotation implies vanishing of non-charge-balanced coefficients
Let be a field and be a non-zero element of infinite order (i.e., if and only if for ). Let be a multivariate polynomial where each variable is assigned an integer weight (or charge) . If is invariant under the transformation , then for any monomial with a non-zero net charge , the coefficient of in must be zero.
