Physics of Warped Geometries

该提案的主题是了解粒子物理学标准模型的基本物理原理，该模型统一了强力和电弱力，但将引力分开处理，从而形成了一个层次结构。为了从一个更统一的角度来看待这些力，我们将研究在高维中形成物理定律的含义，并试图理解低能理论如何包含并引导对高维理论的见解，以及高维理论如何在我们更熟悉的三维和一维宇宙中产生新的方法来看待场论和宇宙学。希望通过对额外维度几何的研究，以及这些高维空间中扩展物体（膜）的存在以及它们与我们生活的宇宙的相关性，更好地理解能量尺度的层次以及宇宙学。

The subject of the proposal is to understand the underlying physics of the standard model of particle physics, which unifies the strong and electro-weak forces but treats the gravitational force separately leading to a hierarchy of scales. to treat the forces from a more unified perspective we will look at the implications of formulating the laws of physics in higher dimensions and try to understand the implications of how the low energy theory contrains and leads insight into the higher dimensional theory and how the higher dimensional theory yeileds new ways of looking at field theory and cosmology in the more familiear three-space and one time dimensional universe we are familiear with. the hope is to have a better understanding of the hierarch of energy scales as well as cosmology from the study of geometries in extra diementions and the existence of extended objects (branes) in these higher dimensional spaces and their relevance to the universe we live in.