Solution

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The operator has mass dimension , so . It is the renormalizable electromagnetic current coupling when completed as quantum electrodynamics: a massless Abelian gauge field couples minimally to the conserved Dirac current, with consistent gauge fixing and Ward identities. Indeed, replacing by a gauge covariant derivative in the Dirac equation produces this interaction. The gauge structure, rather than dimension counting alone, ensures the necessary cancellations.[ref]

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