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Let us consider a pure Abelian gauge theory given by the Lagrangian
$$\displaystyle \begin {array}{rcl} \mathscr {L}_{\text{photon}} &=& -\frac {1}{4}F_{\mu \nu }F^{\mu \nu }\\ &=& - \frac {1}{4}\left ( \partial _\mu A_\nu -\partial _\nu A_\mu \right ) \left ( \partial ^\mu A^\nu -\partial ^\nu A^\mu \right ) \end {array} $$
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Dittrich, W., Reuter, M. (2020). Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics. In: Classical and Quantum Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36786-2_36
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