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DIMENSION OF THE UNIVERSE AND REPRESENTATION OF THE WAVE FUNCTION

ZHONG CHAO WU

Department of Physics, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P. R. China

https://doi.org/10.1142/S021773230401299XCited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Using the right representation in the evaluation of the creation probability of the universe, one can show that the external dimension of the Freund–Rubin model is min(s,n-s), where s is the rank of the antisymmetric field strength in the model.

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PACS: 04.65.+c, 11.30.Pb, 04.60.+n, 04.70.Dy

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