Group-theoretic description of external gauge fields

For an arbitrary external gauge field we construct an infinite group which contains all the information about the given field and describes some of its properties. We construct a field representation of the group . We show that covariant derivatives become translation generators in such a representation of the group . This allows us to interpret transformations from the group as motions in an external gauge field.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 31–35, December, 1988.