Solution

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Use the upper-index coordinates specified in the paper. Differentiation of the Lagrangian density gives the canonical momenta
In particular, and . No time derivative of appears, so the zero momenta are primary constraints, not invertible equations for .
For spatial indices, , so , with the conjugate relation for . Also
The Legendre transform for the complex Proca Hamiltonian, therefore gives
Repeated spatial indices in the positive product denote an ordinary three-component sum. A total Hamiltonian additionally includes multipliers for .
The Hamiltonian printed in the source cannot follow from the given complex Lagrangian density: its missing conjugations, mass coefficients and spatial mass sign are inconsistent. A concrete check is spatially uniform initial data , , with all canonical momenta zero. The correct Hamiltonian density is , while the printed expression gives . These data satisfy the initial constraints and evolve as a spatially uniform massive oscillator. Thus the discrepancy is not a harmless surface term or a different complex-field normalization.

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