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1、PaulSWessonFive-DimensionalPhqsicsClassicalaridQuantumConsequencesofKaluza-KleinCosmologyFive-DimensionalPhysicsClassicalandQuantumConsequencesofKaluza-KleinCosmologyThispageisintentionallyleftblankXaul5WessonUniversityofWaterloo,Canada&StanfordUniversity,USAFive-DimensionalPhysicClassicala
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4、jWorldScientificNEWJERSEY•LONDON•SINGAPORE•BEIJING•SHANGHAI•HONGKONG•TAIPEI•CHENNAIPublishedbyWorldScientificPublishingCo.Pte.Ltd.5TohTuckLink,Singapore596224USAoffice:27WarrenStreet,Suite401-402,Hackensack,NJ07601UKoffice:57SheltonStreet,Covent
5、Garden,LondonWC2H9HEBritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationDataAcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary.FIVE-DIMENSIONALPHYSICSClassicalandQuantumConsequencesofKaluza-KleinCosmologyCopyright©2006byWorldScientificPublishingCo.Pte.Ltd.Allrightsreserved.Thisbook,orpartsthere
6、of,maynotbereproducedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying,recordingoranyinformationstorageandretrievalsystemnowknownortobeinvented,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthePublisher.Forphotocopyingofmaterialinthisvolume,pleasepayacopyingfeethroughtheCopyrightClearanceCent
7、er,Inc.,222RosewoodDrive,Danvers,MA01923,USA.Inthiscasepermissiontophotocopyisnotrequiredfromthepublisher.ISBN981-256-661-9PrintedinSingaporebyWorldScientificPrinters(S)PteLtdPREFACEFivedimensionsrepresentsauniquesituationinmoderntheo•reticalphysics.Itisthesimplestextensionofthefour-dimensio
8、nalEinsteintheoryofgeneralrelativity,whichisthebasisofastrophysicsandcosmology.Itisalsowidelyregardedasthelow-energylimitofhigher-dimensionaltheorieswhichseektounifygravitywiththein•teractionsofparticlephysics.Inthelatterregard,wecanmention10Dsupersymmetry,11Dsupergravityandhigher-Dstringthe
9、ory.However,theviewofourgroupispragmatic:weneedtounderstand5Dphysics,toput4Dgravityintoperspectiveandtoshowuswheretogoinhigherdimensions.Thisbookprovidesanaccountofthemaindevelopmentsin5Dphysicsinrecentyears.Inasense,itisasequeltotheomniver-ousvolu
