Brane-World Gravity

The observable universe could be a 1+3-surface (the “brane”) embedded in a 1+3+d-dimensional spacetime (the “bulk”), with Standard Model particles and fields trapped on the brane while gravity is free to access the bulk. At least one of the d extra spatial dimensions could be very large relative to...

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Main Authors: Roy Maartens, Kazuya Koyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2010-09-01
Series:Living Reviews in Relativity
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Online Access:http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2010-5