Why do we live in 3+1 dimensions?

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.04.023zbMATH Open1247.83256arXivhep-th/0501163OpenAlexW2011978151WikidataQ60868386 ScholiaQ60868386MaRDI QIDQ451694FDOQ451694

Mairi Sakellariadou, Ruth Durrer, Martin Kunz

Publication date: 23 September 2012

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

Abstract: In the context of string theory we argue that higher dimensional Dp-branes unwind and evaporate so that we are left with D3-branes embedded in a (9+1)-dimensional bulk. One of these D3-branes plays the role of our Universe. Within this picture, the evaporation of the higher dimensional Dp-branes provides the entropy of our Universe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501163

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zbMATH Keywords

D-branesstrings and brane phenomenologystrings and branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• String Theory
• An Alternative to Compactification
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