An Early Proposal of 'Brane World'
By Keiichi Akama. 2000
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Here we place the TeX-typeset version of the old preprint SMC-PHYS-66 (1982), which was published in K. Akama, "Pregeometry", in Lecture Notes in Physics, 176, Gauge Theory and Gravitation, Proceedings, Nara, 1982, edited by K. Kikkawa, N. Nakanishi and H. Nariai, (Springer-Verlag) 267--271. In the paper, we presented the picture that we live in a "brane world" (in the present-day terminology) i.e. in a dynamically localized 3-brane in a higher dimensional space. We adopt, as an example, the dynamics of the Nielsen-Olesen vortex type in six dimensional spacetime to localize our space-time within a 3-brane. At low energies, everything is trapped in the 3-brane, and the Einstein gravity is induced through the fluctuations of the 3-brane. The idea is important because it provides a way basically distinct from the "compactification" to hide the extra dimensions which become necessary for various theoretical reasons.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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- Hawking radiation from a (4+n)-dimensional black hole: exact results for the Schwarzschild phase (2003, unknown): “Motivated by the desire to explain the hierarchy problem — that is, the sixteen orders of magnitude difference between the electroweak energy scale and the Planck scale — models that postulate the existence of extra dimensions have been revived and extensively studied during the last few years after”
- Lower bound on the propagation speed of gravity from gravitational Cherenkov radiation (2001, background): “Accurate measurement of the speed of propagation of gravitational waves can constrain extra-dimensional “brane-world” theories in which gravity propagates in the bulk of extra dimensions [ 8 , 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14], while the particles of the Standard Model are confined to a 3+1 dimensional subspac”
- D‐branes in Standard Model building, gravity and cosmology (2003, unknown): “To appear in Physics Reports Contents”
- Modified Gravity and Cosmology (2011, methodology): “The braneworld paradigm [15, 1074, 62, 52, 63] represents a radical alternative to the standard Kaluza-Klein scenario, discussed in the previous section.”
- Dark Energy (2024, unknown): “…assumes, instead, that the extra dimensions are extended, but the whole matter described by the Standard Model of the elementary particles is confined to live on a three-dimensional membrane, so that the effects of the extra dimensions can only be seen as secondary ones (Brane World theories [73]).”
- Lectures on string/brane cosmology (2002, background): “Moreover, based mostly on string theory ideas, the brane world scenario has emerged in the past few years offering dramatic changes in our view of the universe [ 5 ].”
- Brane-World Gravity (2004, methodology): “They were preceded by the Arkani–Hamed–Dimopoulos–Dvali (ADD) brane-world models [15, 14, 13, 6, 367, 421, 168, 173], which put forward the idea that a large volume for the compact extra dimensions would lower the fundamental Planck scale, Mew ∼ 1 TeV .”