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arxiv: hep-th/0505068 · v3 · submitted 2005-05-09 · ✦ hep-th

Gauge invariants and Killing tensors in higher-spin gauge theories

Xavier Bekaert , Nicolas Boulanger This is my paper
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In free completely symmetric tensor gauge field theories on Minkowski space-time, all gauge invariant functions and Killing tensor fields are computed, both on-shell and off-shell. These problems are addressed in the metric-like formalisms.

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