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P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 78, No. 2, pp. 163–176, February, 1989.

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Solov'ev, M.A. Strengthening of Singer's result on absence of global gauge fixing. Theor Math Phys 78, 117–126 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01018676

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