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How to recover causality in special relativity for tachyons

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In this paper we explain why and how tachyons do not imply any causality violation within relativistic theories. Particular emphasis is given to the role of the Stückelberg-Feynman reinterpretation principle, both in ordinary physics and in tachyon physics.

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  1. Istituto di Fisica Teorica, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

    Erasmo Recami

  2. INFN, Seizone di Catania, Catania, Italy

    Erasmo Recami

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Work partially supported by MPI (ex-art. 286) and by CNR under contract no. 75/00442.02.

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Recami, E. How to recover causality in special relativity for tachyons. Found Phys 8, 329–340 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708566

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