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    On Lagrangian formulations for arbitrary bosonic HS fields on Minkowski backgrounds

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    We review the details of unconstrained Lagrangian formulations for Bose particles propagated on an arbitrary dimensional flat space-time and described by the unitary irreducible integer higher-spin representations of the Poincare group subject to Young tableaux Y(s1,...,sk)Y(s_1,...,s_k) with kk rows. The procedure is based on the construction of Verma modules and finding auxiliary oscillator realizations for the symplectic sp(2k)sp(2k) algebra which encodes the second-class operator constraints subsystem in the HS symmetry algebra. Application of an universal BRST approach reproduces gauge-invariant Lagrangians with reducible gauge symmetries describing the free dynamics of both massless and massive bosonic fields of any spin with appropriate number of auxiliary fields.Comment: 8 pages, no figures, extended Contribution to the Proceedings of the International Workshop "Supersymmetry and Quantum Symmetries" (SQS'2011, July 18- July 23, 2011, Dubna, Russia), v.2: 9 pages, 2 references with comments in Introduction adde
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