Conditions are considered in various approaches, determining the dimensionality of a space in which specific physical interactions are described. The dimensionality of the Universe does not necessarily have a fixed value. The cosmological constant is interpreted as the energy density being released in the remaining dimensions when the dimensionality of space is decreased.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 40–48, August, 2016.
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Boichenko, A.M. The Cosmological Constant as a Consequence of the Evolution of Space. Russ Phys J 59, 1171–1180 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-016-0887-4
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