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Homework Statement
Action attached:
To find the EoM of ##\phi ## / ##\phi^* ##
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
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Without deriving from first principles, using E-L equations I have:
## \partial_{u}\frac{\partial L}{\partial_u \phi} - \frac{\partial L}{\partial \phi} =0 ## to get the EoM for ## \phi * ##
So I get:
## -\partial_u \partial^u \phi* +m^2\phi*+ \frac{\partial V}{\partial \phi*} =0 ## (1)
MY QUESTION
Deriving this from first principles I am unsure how to work with the ## V(\phi \phi*) ## term to get the ##\frac{\partial V}{\partial \phi*}## in the EoM .
I.e deriving EoM via ##S'=S+\delta S+O(\delta^2 S)## via plugging in ##\phi \to \phi + \delta \phi ##
I get ## V(\phi \phi*) \to V(\phi^*\delta \phi + \phi \delta \phi^* ) ##
Now to get the EoM I want to factor out ##\delta \phi ## and ##\delta \phi^* ## from ##V(\phi*\delta \phi + \phi \delta \phi^* ) ## to get the EoM for ##\phi*## and ##\phi## respectively, arguing that the integrand multiplying the (e.g) ##\delta \phi ## must vanish since ##\delta \phi ## is arbitrary.
So using the equation (1) above, i.e. sort of cheating and not from first principles I suspect I should be able to show that,
## V(\phi*\delta \phi + \phi \delta \phi* ) = V(\phi*\delta \phi)+V(\phi \delta \phi* )= \frac{\partial V}{\partial \phi*}\delta\phi + \frac{\partial V}{\partial \phi}\delta\phi* ##
I am unsure how to show this explicitly. my thoughts are perhaps integration by parts, but i',m confused with this working with the implicit expression of ##V##
Any help greatly appreciated. thank you.