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Dynamics of dimensional reduction

1980; Elsevier BV; Volume: 97; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0370-2693(80)90590-0

1873-2445

P. Freund, Mark A. Rubin,

Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

In d-dimensional unified theories that, along with gravity, contain an antisymmetric tensor field of rank s-1, preferential compactification of d-s or of s space-like dimensions is found to occur. This is the case in 11-dimensional supergravity where s = 4.