Geometric formulation for partially massless fields

The manifestly gauge invariant formulation for free symmetric higher-spin partially massless fields in (A)dS(d) is given in terms of gauge connections and linearized curvatures that take values in the irreducible representations of (o(d - 1, 2)) o(d, 1) described by two-row Young tableaux, in which the lengths of the first and second row are, respectively, associated with the spin and depth of partial masslessness. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V.