Classical null strings
- 15 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 16 (6) , 1722-1726
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.16.1722
Abstract
Free Nambu strings in space-time are the two-dimensional sheet analog of one-dimensional curves which are timelike or spacelike geodesics. It is pointed out that there is also a sheet analog of one-dimensional curves which are null geodesics.Keywords
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