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A Lagrangian for quantum electrodynamics is found which makes it explicit that the photon mass is eventually set to zero in the physical part on observational ground. It remains possible to obtain a counterterm Lagrangian where the only…
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It is considered a dimensional reduction of Ue(1)xUg(1) 3+1-dimensional electromagnetism with a gauge field (photon) and a pseudo-vector gauge field (pseudo-photon) to 2+1-dimensions. In the absence of boundary effects, the quantum…
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