Tachyons in the Galilean limit
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Batlle, C
Gomis, J
Mezincescu, L
Townsend, PK
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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Space-Time Symmetries, p-branes
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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1126-6708
1029-8479
1029-8479
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2017
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Springer
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CB is partially supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya through project 2014 SGR 267 and by the Spanish government (MINECO/FEDER) under project CICYT DPI2015-69286-C3-2-R. JG has been supported in part by FPA2013-46570-C2-1-P, 2014-SGR-104 (Generalit at de Catalunya) and Con- solider CPAN and by the Spanish goverment (MINECO/FEDER) under project MDM- 2014-0369 of ICCUB (Unidad de Excelencia Marıa de Maeztu). PKT acknowledges support from the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (grant ST/L000385/1).