Abstract
I prove that the necessary and sufficient condition for two Lagrangian densities L1(ψA;ψA,α) and L2(ψA;ψA,α) to have exactly the same Euler-Lagrange derivatives is that their difference Δ(ψA;ψA,α) be the divergence of ωμ(ψA;ψA,α;xμ) with a given dependence on ψA,α. The main point is that ωμ depends on ψA,α but Δ does not depend on second derivatives of the field ψA. Therefore, the function Δ need not be linear in ψA,α.

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