Spontaneous dimensional reduction in Kaluza-Klein theories
- 15 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 30 (2) , 339-343
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.30.339
Abstract
With no torsion, we show that the spontaneous dimensional reduction in any Kaluza-Klein theories always yields a compactified extra space. Without an adjustable cosmological constant, the scale of the ordinary four-dimensional space-time is the same order of magnitude as that of the compactified space.Keywords
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