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The Lorenz gauge is the only Lorentz invariant electrodynamic gauge. If the vector potential has physical meaning, as in the Aharonov-Bohm effect (ABE), then the gauge condition can not be arbitrarily chosen and Lorentz invariance seems gone.

How can the integration path in ABE be Lorentz invariant?

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This is not the case. The Aharanov-Bohm effect yields an observable of the form $$\oint_{\mathcal C} A,$$ where $\mathcal{C}$ is some circuit. This is however gauge invariant. A way to see this is by noting that it can be written in terms of the field strength $$\int_\Sigma F,$$ via Stokes' theorem. In here we chose a surface $\Sigma$ whose boundary is $\mathcal{C}$. The point however is that in the Aharanov-Bohm effect, the observable corresponds to an experiment that happens in $\mathcal{C}$, not $\Sigma$. In particular, the unintuitive part of it is that there is no apparent reason why the observable should contain information of $F$ everywhere on $\Sigma$ if the particles never went there. Therefore, if you want to describe physics locally, you must use the potential $A$ instead of the field strength $F$. Gauge invariance is however not lost.

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