Abstract
We investigate a pointlike massive source in nonlinear theories in the case of an arbitrary number of spatial dimensions . If then extra dimensions undergo toroidal compactification. We consider a weak-field approximation with Minkowski and de Sitter background solutions. In both these cases pointlike massive sources demonstrate good agreement with experimental data only in the case of ordinary three-dimensional () space. We generalize this result to the case of a perfect fluid with dustlike equations of state in the external and internal spaces. This perfect fluid is uniformly smeared over all extra dimensions and enclosed in a three-dimensional sphere. In ordinary three-dimensional () space, our formulas are useful for experimental constraints on parameters of models.
- Received 11 April 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.024023
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