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We study the large gauge transformations of massless higher-spin fields in four-dimensional Minkowski space. Upon imposing suitable fall-off conditions, providing higher-spin counterparts of the Bondi gauge, we observe the existence of an infinite-dimensional asymptotic symmetry algebra. The corresponding Ward identities can be held responsible for Weinberg’s factorisation theorem for amplitudes involving soft particles of spin greater than two.
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Campoleoni, A., Francia, D. & Heissenberg, C. On higher-spin supertranslations and superrotations. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 120 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)120
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