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.
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Alfred Schild (1977) studied this question.
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