Solution

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Introduce the electromagnetic electromagnetic field tensor and the charged vector field strength , with . Minimal coupling gives
Under and ,
Consequently the required relation is
Then , its complex conjugate transforms oppositely, the mass bilinear is invariant, and . Each term in the total Lagrangian density is therefore invariant under the electromagnetic U(1) gauge symmetry. This phase gauge symmetry does not reinstate the broken gradient-shift gauge symmetry of the massive field itself.

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