The question is raised for non-Abelian vector gauge fields whether gauge invariance necessarily implies a massless physical particle. As a preliminary to studying this problem, the action principle is used to discover the independent dynamical variables of such gauge fields and construct their commutation relations.
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Julian Schwinger (1962) studied this question.
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