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We propose a renormalizable theory of massive non-Abelian gauge fields that does not require the existence of observable scalar fields.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 14-50-00005).
Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the author; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 193, No. 3, pp. 484–492, December, 2017.
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Slavnov, A.A. A possibility to describe models of massive non-Abelian gauge fields in the framework of a renormalizable theory. Theor Math Phys 193, 1826–1833 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S004057791712008X
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