A POSSIBLE WAY OF STABILIZING A HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE

Authors
EZAWA Y SODA J WATANABE T YANO T
Citation
Y. Ezawa et al., A POSSIBLE WAY OF STABILIZING A HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics, 111(3), 1996, pp. 355-362
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
11241888
Volume
111
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
355 - 362
Database
ISI
SICI code
1124-1888(1996)111:3<355:APWOSA>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
We examine the stability of the extra-dimensional compactified spaces necessary for, e.g., the string theory. The analysis of a simplified m odel indicates that these spaces collapse classically and quantum-mech anically. To resolve this serious problem, we propose a new Planckian- scale physics which suggests the non-commutative nature of the space-t ime.