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Massive fields on (anti) de Sitter space realize extended shift symmetries at particular values of their masses. We find these symmetries for all bosonic p-forms and mixed symmetry fields, in arbitrary spacetime dimension. These shift symmetric fields correspond to the missing longitudinal modes of mixed symmetry partially massless fields where the top row of the Young tableau is activated.
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Hinterbichler, K. Shift symmetries for p-forms and mixed symmetry fields on (A)dS. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 15 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2022)015
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