Large and infinite extra dimensions
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- 30 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk (UFN) Journal in Physics-Uspekhi
- Vol. 44 (9) , 871-893
- https://doi.org/10.1070/pu2001v044n09abeh001000
Abstract
The emphasis in the developmet of theories with more than three spatial dimensions has recently shifted towards ``brane world'' picture, which assumes that ordinary matter (with possible exceptions of gravitons and other, hypothetic, particles which interact very weakly with matter) is trapped to a three-dimensional submanifold --- brane --- embedded in fundamental multi-dimensional space. In the brane world scenario, extra dimensions may be large, and even infinite; they may have effects, directly observable in current or fothcoming experiments. On the basis of simple field-theoretic models, various ideas in this direction are exposed at a non-expert level.Comment: 55 pages, 10 figures Several references and figures added. Journal version, to appear in Uspekhi Fiz. NauKeywords
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