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The Ward-Takahashi identities are generally understood as expressing the gauge invariance. After a short critical review, we give a necessary and sufficient condition connecting the existence of these identities with the gauge invariance properties of the Lagrangian in the Abelian and non-Abelian cases.
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Houard, J.C., Irac-Astaud, M. (1981). Ward-Takahashi Identities and Gauge Invariance. In: Tirapegui, E. (eds) Field Theory, Quantization and Statistical Physics. Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8368-7_9
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