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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Localisability in classical mechanics

D. R. Grigore

Published Aug 7, 1990• 3 citations
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Abstract

A reasonable definition for the notion of localisability in classical mechanics is given. It could explain in a satisfactory way the properties of the relativistic photon and the fact that some relativistic systems predicted by Poincare invariance, such as tachyons, do not appear in nature.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/23/15/024

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