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For electromagnetism the Lorenz gauge condition is one possible gauge fixing condition: It requests that the divergence of the gauge potential differential 1-form vanishes: .
On Minkowski spacetime in standard coordinates this is the condition (using Einstein summation convention).
In BV-BRST formalism this gauge (and its variants) is implement by introducing the auxiliary “Nakanishi-Lautrup field” together with its “antighost field”, see at quantization of Yang-Mills theory.
Named after Ludvik Lorenz (not to be confused with Hendrik Lorentz whose name is attached to the Lorentz group).
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