Solution

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Set , so and . The physical polarization vectors obey . Write when they agree after contraction with these polarization vectors; terms proportional to or may then be discarded.
The gamma matrix trace identities kill the terms with an odd number of gamma matrices. The remaining three two-momentum terms and the term with three factors of are
In the coefficient the terms linear in cancel, leaving . Among the other terms, the surviving mixed products of and also cancel. Consequently
In the second Feynman diagram, exchange the external labels and change the dummy loop momentum . Its projected numerator and denominator become identical to those of the first Feynman diagram. Hence
With the common factor extracted, the primitive integer coefficients are
Equivalently, extracting only gives and prefactor . A common rescaling of all three coefficients changes the prefactor inversely. The physical scattering amplitude is ; the projected integrand is not an identity for an arbitrary uncontracted off-shell tensor.

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