Comment on: Detecting Vanishing Dimensions Via Primordial Gravitational Wave Astronomy

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It has been recently claimed [arXiv:1102.3434] that quantum gravity models where the number of dimensions reduces at the ultraviolet exhibit a potentially observable cutoff in the primordial gravitational wave spectrum, and that this is a "generic" and "robust" test for such models, since "(2+1)-dimensional spacetimes have no gravitational degrees of freedom".

• We argue that such a claim is misleading.