Compactification (physics)
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Compactification makes some spatial dimensions compact, so modes along them acquire discrete momenta. At energies below the first nonzero compact-mode mass, a <dimensional reduction> to the zero modes gives a lower-dimensional <effective field theory>. The compact volume fixes the gravitational kinetic coefficient in an unwarped product background.