For the standard CE in the scalar-isoscalar channel, Eq. (27), the constraints that we found from Eq. (48) are exactly the same as those defining the gauge-invariant functional up to NLO [Carlsson et al.(2008)Carlsson, Dobaczewski, and Kortelainen]. This constitutes an explicit verification of the general result presented in Sec. 2.2.1. As in Ref. [Carlsson et al.(2008)Carlsson, Dobaczewski, and Kortelainen], we obtained two sets of independent constraints, one for the isoscalar coupling constants and one for the isovector coupling constants . Within each isospin channel, the linear conditions for the scalar coupling constants, , are disconnected from the linear conditions for the vector coupling constants, .