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Institute of Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 395–406, June, 1981.

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Faingol'd, M.I. Cherenkov radiation of tachyons. Theor Math Phys 47, 538–546 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019305

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