An Alternative to Compactification

Lisa Randall; Raman Sundrum · Physical Review Letters · 1999

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Lisa Randall; Raman Sundrum

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Physical Review Letters

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1999

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English

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Conventional wisdom states that Newton's force law implies only four noncompact dimensions. We demonstrate that this is not necessarily true in the presence of a nonfactorizable background geometry. The specific example we study is a single 3-brane embedded in five dimensions. We show that even without a gap in the Kaluza-Klein spectrum, four-dimensional Newtonian and general relativistic gravity is reproduced to more than adequate precision.

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Randall, L. & Sundrum, R. (1999). An Alternative to Compactification. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.4690

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Randall, Lisa, and Raman Sundrum. "An Alternative to Compactification." 1999. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.4690.

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Randall, Lisa and Raman Sundrum. 1999. "An Alternative to Compactification.". https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.4690.

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Randall, L. and Sundrum, R. 1999, An Alternative to Compactification, Physical Review Letters, available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.4690 [Accessed 8 Aug. 2026].

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Title: An Alternative to Compactification

Author / contributors: Lisa Randall; Raman Sundrum

Publisher: Physical Review Letters

Publication year: 1999

Language: English

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Compactification (mathematics); Physics; Theoretical physics; Brane; Extra dimensions; Kaluza–Klein theory; Spectrum (functional analysis); Newtonian potential; Universal extra dimension; Gravitation; Classical mechanics; Quantum mechanics