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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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Batlle, C., Gomis, J., Mezincescu, L. et al. Tachyons in the Galilean limit. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 120 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2017)120
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