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The usual rules for constructing the Lagrangian of fictitious particles in gauge theories is generalized. The gauge invariant and multiplicative renormalizability of the theory with generalized action in nonlinear gauges is proved.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh, Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 11–15, June, 1981.
The author thanks I. A. Batalin and B. L. Voronov for discussing the problems considered here.
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Tyutin, I.V. Renormalization of gauge theories in nonlinear gauges. Soviet Physics Journal 24, 487–490 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00892940
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