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Published July 5, 1984 | public
Journal Article

Spacetime compactification induced by scalars

Abstract

It is shown that scalars of a nonlinear sigma model coupled to gravity can trigger spontaneous compactification of spacetime if the scalar manifold has an Einstein metric and the scalar self-coupling constant takes a specific value. The compactified space becomes isomorphic to the scalar manifold and the four-dimensional space has no cosmological term at the classical level.

Additional Information

© 1984 Elsevier. Received 28 March 1984. Work supported in part by the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-81-ER40050 and by the Fleischmann Foundation. Work supported by the National Science Foundation under Research Grant No.PHY-82-03424.

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