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The Proca action is invariant under spacetime translations and proper continuous Lorentz transformations, together forming the connected Poincaré group. The fixed nonzero mass excludes scale invariance. In four dimensions, a dimensionless action and the canonical kinetic term implyThese are mass dimensions. The field-strength term is invariant under , but the mass term is not: its change contains . Thus the displayed massive-vector theory has no Maxwell-type local gauge invariance. The massless limit has a different constraint structure.
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