Here we present a selection of (mainly english speaking) books and papers which may be useful for particpants. This list is not complete. Further suggestions to the organizers are welcome.


String Theory

  1. String theory, gravity and experiment
    T. Damour and M. Lilley. http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.4169
  2. String theory: An overview
    J. Louis, T. Mohaupt, S. Theisen. Lect. Notes Phys. 721, 289-323 (2007).

 

Historical

  1. Über die Möglichkeit, das elektromagnetische Feld und das Gravitationsfeld zu vereinigen
    G. Nordström. Physik. Zeitschr. 15 504-506 (1914).
  2. Welche Rolle spielt die Dimensionalität des Raumes in den Grundgesetzen der Physik?
    P. Ehrenfest. Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 61, 440 (1920).
  3. On the problem of unity in physics
    T. Kaluza. Sitzungsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. (Math. Phys. Kl.) page 966 (1921).
  4. Quantentheorie und fünfdimensionale Relativitätstheorie
    O. Klein. Z. Phys. 37, 895 (1926).
  5. Why is space three-dimensional?
    I.M. Freeman. Am. J. Phys. 37, 1222 (1969) (based on W. Büchel, ‘‘Warum hat der Raum drei Dimensionen?).

 

Extra dimensions

 

Solutions of Einsteins equations

  1. Schwarzschild field in n dimensions and the dimensionality of space problem
    F. R. Tangherlini. Nuovo Cim. 27, 636 (1963).
  2. Black Holes In Higher Dimensional Space-Times
    R. C. Myers and M. J. Perry. Annals Phys. 172, 304 (1986).
  3. Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensions
    B Kleihaus, J. Kunz, F. Navarro-Lerida, in A. Macias, C. Lämmerzahl, and A. Camacho (eds) Recent Developments in Gravitation and Cosmology, American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 977 (Melville, N.Y. 2008), arXiv:0710.2291v3 [hep-th].
  4. Black Holes in Higher Dimensions
    R. Emparan and H.S. Reall. http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3471.

 

Experimental search for higher dimensions

  1. Tests of the gravitational inverse square law
    E.G.Adelberger, B.R. Heckel,and A.E. Nelson. Ann. Rev. Nucl. Particle Science 53, 77 (2003).
  2. Submillimeter tests of the gravitational inverse-square law
    C.D. Hoyle, D.J. Kapner, B.R. Heckel, E.G. Adelberger, J.H. Gundlach, U. Schmidt, and H.E. Swanson. Phys. Rev. D 70, 042004 (2004).

 

General

  1. Dimensionality
    J.D. Barrow: Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 310, 337 (1983).
  2. The world in eleven dimensions: a tribute to Oskar Klein
    M. J. Duff. hep-th/0111237v1

Popular

  1. The universe’s unseen dimensions
    N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and G. Dvali. Scientific American, August 2000, 62.