Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2017)

Tachyons in the Galilean limit

  • Carles Batlle,
  • Joaquim Gomis,
  • Luca Mezincescu,
  • Paul K. Townsend

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2017)120
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2017, no. 4
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract The Souriau massless Galilean particle of “colour” k and spin s is shown to be the Galilean limit of the Souriau tachyon of mass m = ik and spin s. We compare and contrast this result with the Galilean limit of the Nambu-Goto string and Green-Schwarz superstring.

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