Space-time dimensionality from brane collisions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-04-06 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Collisions and subsequent decays of higher dimensional branes leave behind three-dimensional branes and anti-branes, one of which could play the role of our universe. This process also leads to the production of one-dimensional branes and anti-branes, however their number is expected to be suppressed. Brane collisions may also lead to the formation of bound states of branes. Their existence does not alter this result, it just allows for the existence of one-dimensional branes captured within the three-dimensional ones.
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@article{arxiv.0810.0363,
title = {Space-time dimensionality from brane collisions},
author = {William Nelson and Mairi Sakellariadou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0363},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, one minor modification to match version to appear in Phys. Let. B