An Alternative to Compactification
Physical Review Letters · 1999 · 7,240 citationsOpen access
Abstract
Conventional wisdom states that Newton's force law implies only four noncompact dimensions. We demonstrate that this is not necessarily true in the presence of a nonfactorizable background geometry. The specific example we study is a single 3-brane embedded in five dimensions. We show that even without a gap in the Kaluza-Klein spectrum, four-dimensional Newtonian and general relativistic gravity is reproduced to more than adequate precision.
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Randall, L., & Sundrum, R. (1999). An alternative to compactification. Physical Review Letters, 83(23), 4690–4693. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.4690
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