Absence of tachyons in supergravity and classical relativity
- 15 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 19 (10) , 3165
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.19.3165
Abstract
The relation between energy and supercharge in supersymmetry and supergravity implies that tachyons have vanishing four-momentum there and consequently in classical Einstein gravity also.Keywords
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