"Gauge symmetry: Whenever the Hamiltonian is such as to conserve the total number of particles of a particular sort—or, more generally, where there is a conserved "charge"-like quantity, such as lepton or baryon number, or electric charge itself—we shall find that the Hamiltonian will exhibit a gauge invariance property."

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