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Mixed-symmetry massless gauge fields in AdS5

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Using the su(2, 2) spinor language, we describe free mixed-symmetry massless bosonic and fermionic gauge fields of arbitrary spins in the AdS5 space. We construct manifestly covariant action functionals and derive field equations.

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 149, No. 1, pp. 47–59, October, 2006.

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Alkalaev, K.B. Mixed-symmetry massless gauge fields in AdS5 . Theor Math Phys 149, 1338–1348 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-006-0122-5

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