PIRSA:09090000

Brane interactions: the origin of space-time dimensionality and the physics of cosmic superstrings

Sakellariadou, M. (2009). Brane interactions: the origin of space-time dimensionality and the physics of cosmic superstrings. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09090000

Sakellariadou, Mairi. Brane interactions: the origin of space-time dimensionality and the physics of cosmic superstrings. Perimeter Institute, Sep. 30, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09090000 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09090000,
            doi = {10.48660/09090000},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09090000},
            author = {Sakellariadou, Mairi},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity, Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Brane interactions: the origin of space-time dimensionality and the physics of cosmic superstrings},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {sep},
            note = {PIRSA:09090000 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Mairi Sakellariadou King's College London

DOI 10.48660/09090000
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Collisions and subsequent decays of higher dimensional branes leave behind three-dimensional branes, one of which could play the role of our universe. This process also leads to the production of one-dimensional branes, D-strings, and fundamental ones (F-strings), known as cosmic superstrings. In the first part of this talk, I will discuss the mechanism we have proposed in order to explain the origin of the space-time dimensionality, while in the second part I will review formation and dynamics of cosmic superstrings.