Published February 1, 2020
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Why does D = 4, rather than more (or less)? An Orwellian explanation
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- Deser, S.
Abstract
Two simple, if draconian, assumptions about classical gravity actions fix space–time's dimension at D = 4.
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© 2020 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society. Manuscript received 25/09/2019; Manuscript accepted 24/12/2019; Published online 05/02/2020; Published in print 02/2020. For Mike Duff, friend, collaborator, eminent theoretician, peerless Defender of the Faith, on his 70th. One contribution to a special feature 'Quantum gravity, branes and M-theory' dedicated to Michael J. Duff on the occasion of his 70th birthday organized by Leron Borsten, Alessio Marrani, Christopher Pope and Kellogg Stelle. I thank Bayram Tekin for useful correspondence and J. Franklin for great Tex help. Data accessibility: This article has no additional data. Authors' contributions: All authors contributed to the writing and revision of the manuscript. I declare I have no competing interest. The work of S.D. was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award no. de-sc0011632.Attached Files
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- 99501
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20191028-150643738
- DE-SC0011632
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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2019-10-28Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
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- CALT-TH
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- 2019-037