Solution

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Put , , , and suppress the common colour factor . Define by the product of Feynman rules. With massless external Dirac spinors the two graphs give
The massless Dirac equation gives and . Thus
By four-momentum conservation, , so
The two terms cancel:
This is the Ward identity for the incoming photon; replacing its photon polarization vector by its four-momentum produces zero. The outgoing photon obeys the analogous identity. Each exchange graph separately fails this test, so the cancellation requires their sum. Consequently the physical scattering amplitude is invariant under .

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