Dimensionality in the Freund-Rubin cosmology

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2003.12.078MaRDI QIDQ447119zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhong Chao Wu

Publication date 9 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0309178

zbMATH Keywords

dimensionalityquantum cosmologyKaluza-Klein theoryanthropic principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In the $n-$dimensional Freund-Rubin model with an antisymmetric tensor field of rank $s-1$, the dimension of the external spacetime we live in must be $min(s,n-s)$. This result is a generalization of the previous result in the $d=11$ supergravity case, where $s=4$.

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