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D‐branes in Standard Model building, gravity and cosmology
Author(s) -
Kiritsis E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/prop.200310120
Subject(s) - brane cosmology , cosmology , physics , theoretical physics , unification , brane , standard model (mathematical formulation) , classical mechanics , astronomy , computer science , geography , archaeology , gauge (firearms) , programming language
This is a review of aspects of D‐brane applications to particle physics and cosmology. D‐branes provide interesting alternatives to standard unification of interactions. Moreover they entail new mechanisms in cosmology that have the potential to explain recent observational data.