  We show that, in any space-time dimension, the on-shell (electric) conformal
Carrollian scalar can be interpreted as the flat-space limit of the singleton
representation of the conformal algebra. In fact, a recently proposed
higher-spin algebra for Minkowski spacetime amounts to the Poincar\'e
enveloping algebra on the corresponding module. This higher-spin algebra is a
contraction of that entering Vasiliev's equations, which can be constructed
analogously from the singleton representation of the conformal algebra. We also
show that the higher-spin extension of the Poincar\'e algebra we consider is a
subalgebra of all symmetries of the conformal Carrollian scalar, given by a
higher-spin version of the (extended) BMS algebra.

High Energy Physics - Theory