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An Alternative to Compactification

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Randall, Lisa, Sundrum, Raman·1999·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.83.4690
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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 and Sundrum developed two braneworld models with an anti-de Sitter space as bulk: the first with two branes and the second with one brane.

    “Following the work of Arkani-Hamed et al. (1998), Randall and Sundrum developed two braneworld models with an anti-de Sitter space as bulk. The first model has two branes (Randall and Sundrum 1999b) and the second model with one brane (Randall and Sundrum 1999a).”

    From Testing general relativity in cosmology (2019) · cites this paper as Randall and Sundrum 1999a

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Authors
Randall, L., & Sundrum, R.
Affiliations
  • Princeton University (US)
  • Boston University (US)
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Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1999-12-06
Volume
83
Issue
23
Pages
4690-4693
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.83.4690
OpenAlex
W2095721433
Cited by
7,217
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285.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
link.aps.org/licenses/aps-default-license (vor)
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  • Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
Keywords
extra dimensions, Kaluza-Klein spectrum, 3-brane, five-dimensional gravity, Newtonian gravity, general relativity, compactification

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