Re: The Signifcance of the KKTower

Posted by DickT on December 19, 2002 at 07:30:48:

In Reply to: The Signifcance of the KKTower posted by sol on December 18, 2002 at 21:59:32:

sol,

I think acceptance of the KK mechanism has freed up physical imaginations. They now feel they can legitimately talk about "compactification" and that gives them more phenomena thay can investigate.

I am now reading a paper on adS/CFT and the attempt to generate QCD from it. The KK object here is an anti-deSitter space of 5 dimensions crossed with a 5 dimensional hypersphere. That is the whole object is 10 dimensional and analogous to a trumpet shape, with the circular cross-section of the trumpet standing in for the 5-sphere and the swooping contour of the trumpet representing the anti-deSitter space. Nothing like this could have been thought of without the freedom that KK gives.

Regards,
Dick

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