Solution

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For compactly supported variations, antisymmetry of the electromagnetic field tensor gives . Integrate by parts in the action to obtain
Arbitrariness of the variation gives the Proca equation
together with the unchanged identity coming from . The signs follow from the source and mass terms as printed.

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