Tachyons in the Galilean limit
Published version
Peer-reviewed
Repository URI
Repository DOI
Change log
Authors
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.
Description
Keywords
Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
1126-6708
1029-8479
1029-8479
Volume Title
2017
Publisher
Springer
Publisher DOI
Rights and licensing
Except where otherwised noted, this item's license is described as Attribution 4.0 International
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000385/1)
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).