Write an amplitude with an external massless vector of momentum as
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Changing the polarization representative by is a gauge transformation. The physical amplitude must be unchanged, so the Ward identity is
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Thus a longitudinal pure-gauge polarization decouples from the S-matrix. This on-shell statement is the amplitude counterpart of the off-shell Ward-Takahashi identity.

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