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"An alternative to compactification,"
by Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum, Physical Review Letters,
83(23):4690-3, 6 December 1999.
[Authors' affiliations: Princeton University,
NJ; MIT, Cambridge; Boston University, MA]
Abstract: "Conventional wisdom states that Newton's force law
implies only four noncompact dimensions. We demonstrate that this is not
necessarily true in the presence of a nonfactorizable background geometry. The
specific example we study is a single 3-brane embedded in five dimensions. We
show that even without a gap in the Kaluza-Klein spectrum, four-dimensional
Newtonian and general relativistic gravity is reproduced to more than adequate
precision."
This 1999 report from Physical Review
Letters was cited 73 times in current journal articles
indexed in the ISI database during September-October 2001. Based on its
citation total during that two-month period, this is currently the most-cited
paper in physics published in the last two years, aside from reviews. As has
been the case for some months now, the paper's only competition comes from
Randall and Sundrum themselves: another of the pair's 1999 papers in Physical
Review Letters, "Large mass hierarchy from a small extra
dimension," (83[17]:3370-3, 1999), currently ranks at #2 in physics,
having alternated the #1 spot with the above paper during several previous
bimonthly periods. Prior to the most recent two-month count, citations to
"An alternative to compactification" have accrued as follows:
July-August 2001: 66 citations
May-June 2001: 60
March-April 2001: 57
January-February 2001: 28
November-December 2000: 47
September-October 2000: 48
July-August 2000: 36
May-June 2000: 9
March-April 2000: 11
January-February 2000: 2
Total citations to date: 437
SOURCE: Hot
Papers Database (Available from the ISI
Research Services Group in a CD-ROM version containing data on
hundreds of highly cited papers published during the last two years.
User interface permits searching by author, organization, journal,
field, and more. Total citations, as well as citations accrued during
successive bimonthly periods, can be assessed and graphed. Database is
combined with subscription to the ISI newsletter Science
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most recent bimonthly data are mailed with each new issue, six times a
year.)
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