 Positive-sign covariant gauge-fixing inverse

For fixed $\xi \ne 0$, the Lorentzian quadratic density $-F^2/4+(\partial \cdot A{)}^2/(2\xi )$ has momentum kernel $K^{ab}=-p^2{\eta }^{ab}+(1+1/\xi )p^a{p}^b$. At $p^2\ne 0$ its inverse, defined by $K^{ac}{G}_{cb}={\delta }_b^a$, is $G_{ab}=-{\eta }_{ab}/p^2+(1+\xi )p_a{p}_b/(p^2{)}^2$. A vacuum photon propagator is $iG$ with the appropriate Feynman i-epsilon prescription. The usual parameter in the negative-sign covariant gauge term is $\alpha =-\xi$, so Feynman gauge is $\xi =-1$.