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Using the off-shell formulation for \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 conformal supergravity in four dimensions, we describe superconformal higher-spin multiplets of conserved currents in a curved background and present their associated unconstrained gauge prepotentials. The latter are used to construct locally superconformal chiral actions, which are demonstrated to be gauge invariant in arbitrary conformally flat backgrounds. The main \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 results are then generalised to the \( \mathcal{N} \)-extended case. We also present the gauge-invariant field strengths for on-shell massless higher-spin \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 supermultiplets in anti-de Sitter space. These field strengths prove to furnish representations of the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 superconformal group.
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Kuzenko, S.M., Raptakis, E.S.N. Extended superconformal higher-spin gauge theories in four dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 210 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)210
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