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We study the color-decoration of higher-spin (anti)-de Sitter gravity in three dimensions. We show that the rainbow vacua, which we found recently for the colored gravity theory, also pertain in the colored higher-spin theory. The color singlet spin-two plays the role of first fundamental form (metric). The difference is that when spontaneous breaking of color symmetry takes place, the Goldstone modes of massless spin-two combine with all other spins and become the maximal-depth partially massless fields of the highest spin in the theory, forming a Regge trajectory.
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Gwak, S., Joung, E., Mkrtchyan, K. et al. Rainbow vacua of colored higher-spin (A)dS3 gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 150 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)150
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