Talk:Dilaton

Holy Crap! Layman's Explanations PLEASE
You cannot write an article for an encyclopaedia and expect it to resemble something out of a graduate level text-book. Come on! The detail is good for those who understand it, but you have to explain it so people who never took a quantum mechanics course (I suspect a fairly LARGE percentage of the world) can get something from it, or remove it altogether. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.60.102.23 (talk) 13:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * "I", "we", "you", "us" style language is textbook or professorial. Wikipedia's purpose is not to lecture but to inform. Fix this. 71.140.232.66 (talk) 21:14, 25 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Within reasonable constraints of the topic have attempted to address your concern. 198.255.197.105 (talk) 03:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

radion $$\neq$$ dilaton
The Kaluza-Klein section is incorrect. g55 describes the radion, not the dilaton. The dilaton is something else entirely. A dilaton is more like the Brans-Dicke scalar. Hep thinker (talk) 15:01, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I have to admit in some cases, the dilaton can be the same as the radion in a dual theory. For instance, in heterotic $$E_8 \times E_8$$ string theory, the dilaton corresponds to the radion of the dual Hořava-Witten M-theory. Hep thinker (talk) 14:54, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Worldsheet CFT
The acronym 'CFT' is ambiguous -- does this refer to classical field theory, conformal field theory, or something else altogether? --Pdaoust (talk) 15:47, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Dilaton action
The action presented in the article does not seem to be the most general one. Besides, the action is presented in vacuum while, as far as I know, the interaction between the dilaton and the material part of the Lagrangian can be of great interest. I could search for a suitable action in the "usual" literature but I'd rather let an actual string theorist complete that section. Anyone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fluctuating metric (talk • contribs) 14:57, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Editing suggestions
In order to make this article accessible to a greater number of people, can someone familiar with soliton theory begin this entry with a basic introduction, then a discussion of the soliton's purported properties, and then its functional significance and interactions with other particles and fields? Hopefully, the functional significance section would include an explanation as to why the soliton was theorized in the first place, in terms of what physics problems could be solved by its existence. Finally, what are the obstacles and possible future methods for detecting solitons?

For clarity, here is a fill-in-the-blank sample of my request, beginning with:

INTRODUCTION

A soliton is a hypothetical particle in string theory.

THEORIZED PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

Solitons have ____ rest mass, with spin ___. [Add other properties]

THEORIZED FUNCTION(S) AND INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER PARTICLES AND FIELDS

The soliton field interacts with _____ in the following manner _______.

DETECTION OF SOLITONS

Current obstacles to the detection of solitons are ______.

- Much gratitude from us layperson fans of physics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:444:C200:F3BF:D870:2D8B:811E:B07 (talk) 18:08, 11 December 2019 (UTC)