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How can extra dimensions be small?

Compactifications of 6d (2,0) SCFT

How does superstring theory explain the inverse square gravity law, given that it requires 9 spatial dimension?

How to imagine higher dimensions?

What Does it Mean for an Extra Dimension to Have Size?

Why F-theory picks Calabi-Yau manifolds as backgrounds?

Why does string theory require 9 dimensions of space and one dimension of time?

Measuring extra-dimensions

On compactifications of Lindelöf spaces

Intuition for the Stone-Čech compactification via ultrafilters