Note on higher spins and holographic symmetry algebra
Abstract
In this paper we discuss a higher spin extension of the holographic symmetry algebra for graviton and gluon. Our primary observation is that in the presence of higher spin particles the soft symmetry algebra has a subalgebra isomorphic to which is generated by the \textit{conformally soft higher spin particles}. This subalgebra does not commute with the subalegbra generated by the conformally soft gravitons. The same thing holds for the colored higher spin particles. One gets a subalgebra isomorphic to the -algebra which is generated by the conformally soft colored higher spin particles. We further verify the soft algebra for colored higher spin particles using the (tree-level) -point MHV amplitude of the higher spin Yang-Mills theory constructed in arXiv:2210.07130. At the end we also discuss the higher spin extension of the deformed holographic symmetry algebra for non-zero cosmological constant as constructed in arXiv:2312.00876.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.03365,
title = {Note on higher spins and holographic symmetry algebra},
author = {Shamik Banerjee and Suman Guchait and Raju Mandal and Sudhakar Panda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03365},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
21 pages, Latex, References added