The word independent here counts symmetry generators and tensor components; it needs qualification if it is meant asfunctional independence of all charges for only two particles in arbitrarily high dimension. In centre-of-mass coordinates, L=R∧P+r∧p. Consequently P∧L∧L=0, a nontrivial identity from dimension five onwards, since (r∧p)∧(r∧p)=0. Thus the displayed number is the symmetry-charge count; it is not an assertion that these functions have unrestricted values for a two-particle realization in every D.