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    In theoretical physics, compactification means changing a theory with respect to one of its space-time dimensions. Instead of having a theory with this...
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  • Compactification (mathematics), making a topological space compact Compactification (physics), the "curling up" of extra dimensions in string theory Compaction...
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  • Irene (2022). "Lectures on the Swampland Program in String Compactifications". Physics Reports. 989: 1–50. arXiv:2102.01111. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2022...
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  • String theory (category Concepts in physics)
    of models of particle physics going beyond the standard model. Typically, such models are based on the idea of compactification. Starting with the ten-...
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  • continuous action on this compactification. Gardiner & Masur (1991) considered a compactification similar to the Thurston compactification, but using extremal...
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  • realistic models of particle physics based on string and M-theory. Typically, such models are based on the idea of compactification. Starting with the ten-...
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  • Superstring theory (category Physics beyond the Standard Model)
    occurring as a result of a Kaluza–Klein compactification of 11D M-theory that contains membranes. Because compactification of a geometric theory produces extra...
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    Kaluza–Klein theory (category Particle physics)
    theories of gravitation Complex spacetime DGP model Quantum gravity Compactification (physics) Randall–Sundrum model Matej Pavšič String theory Supergravity...
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  • g. the radius and complex structure) which govern the shape of the compactification manifold, et cetera. These parameters are represented, in the quantum...
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    Physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) refers to the theoretical developments needed to explain the deficiencies of the Standard Model, such as the inability...
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  • Dirac Medal (ICTP) (category Physics awards)
    the ICTP is given each year by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac. The award, announced each year...
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  • number 107 named after Niels Bohr Bohr bug, a type of software bug Bohr compactification, a mathematical concept due to Harald Bohr This disambiguation page...
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  • generations, but the particular number depends on the details of the compactification of the D-brane intersections. Additionally, E8 grand unified theories...
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  • Kaluza–Klein compactification made it hard to acquire chiral fermions needed to build the Standard Model. Additionally, these compactifications generally...
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  • In physics, a string is a physical entity postulated in string theory and related subjects. Unlike elementary particles, which are zero-dimensional or...
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  • Collider Compact Muon Solenoid Compact dimension Compact star Compactification (physics) Compaction simulation Comparison of software for molecular mechanics...
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  • mathematics, specifically in convex analysis, the convex compactification is a compactification which is simultaneously a convex subset in a locally convex...
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  • Null infinity (category Theoretical physics)
    {\displaystyle ds^{2}=-dt^{2}+dr^{2}+r^{2}d\Omega ^{2}} . Conformal compactification induces a transformation which preserves angles, but changes the local...
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    Calabi–Yau manifold (category Mathematical physics)
    corresponding to 26−n supercharges in a compactification of type IIA supergravity or 25−n supercharges in a compactification of type I. When fluxes are included...
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    In quantum physics an anomaly or quantum anomaly is the failure of a symmetry of a theory's classical action to be a symmetry of any regularization of...
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    Andrew Strominger (category MIT Center for Theoretical Physics people)
    quantum gravity and string theory. These include his work on Calabi–Yau compactification and topology change in string theory, and on the stringy origin of...
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    magnitude less than the scale of inflation. The discovery of flux compactifications opened the way for reconciling inflation and string theory. Brane...
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  • Shamit Kachru (category Stanford University Department of Physics faculty)
    cosmology, condensed matter physics, and elementary particle theory. He has made central contributions to the study of compactifications of string theory from...
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  • Mirror symmetry (string theory) (category Mathematical physics)
    In most realistic models of physics based on string theory, this is accomplished by a process called compactification, in which the extra dimensions...
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    with these properties. The 3-sphere is homeomorphic to the one-point compactification of R3. In general, any topological space that is homeomorphic to the...
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  • neighbourhoods look like cones over a certain base. In physics, in particular in flux compactifications of string theory, the base is usually a five-dimensional...
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    contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him. Alexandrov attended...
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  • E Cremmer, J Scherk: Spontaneous compactification of space in an Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs model - Nuclear Physics B, 1976 Cremmer, E.; Ferrara, S.;...
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    Supergravity (category Physics beyond the Standard Model)
    construct a chiral fermion from a compactification — the compactified manifold needed to have singularities, but physics near singularities did not begin...
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  • {\displaystyle 10^{272,000}} elements or so, is dominated by F-theory compactifications on Calabi–Yau four-folds. There are about 10 15 {\displaystyle 10^{15}}...
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