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Gravity and strings [electronic resource] / Tomás Ortín.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Cambridge monographs on mathematical physicsPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: xx, 684 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 530.14 22
LOC classification:
  • QC178 .O78 2004eb
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Contents:
Pt. I. Introduction to gravity and supergravity -- 1. Differential geometry -- 2. Noether's theorems -- 3. A perturbative introduction to general relativity -- 4. Action principles for gravity -- 5. N = 1, 2, d = 4 supergravities -- 6. Conserved charges in general relativity -- Pt. II. Gravitating point-particles -- 7. The Schwarzschild black hole -- 8. The Reissner-Nordstrom black hole -- 9. The Taub-NUT solution -- 10. Gravitational pp-waves -- 11. The Kaluza-Klein black hole -- 12. Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes -- 13. Unbroken supersymmetry -- Pt. III. Gravitating extended objects of string theory -- 14. String theory -- 15. The string effective action and T duality -- 16. From eleven to four dimensions -- 17. The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality -- 18. Extended objects -- 19. The extended objects of string theory -- 20. String black holes in four and five dimensions -- App. A. Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang-Mills fields -- App. B. Gamma matrices and spinors -- App. C. n-Spheres -- App. D. Palatini's identity -- App. E. Conformal rescalings -- App. F. Connections and curvature components -- App. G. The harmonic operator on R[superscript 3] x S[superscript 1]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Introduction to gravity and supergravity -- 1. Differential geometry -- 2. Noether's theorems -- 3. A perturbative introduction to general relativity -- 4. Action principles for gravity -- 5. N = 1, 2, d = 4 supergravities -- 6. Conserved charges in general relativity -- Pt. II. Gravitating point-particles -- 7. The Schwarzschild black hole -- 8. The Reissner-Nordstrom black hole -- 9. The Taub-NUT solution -- 10. Gravitational pp-waves -- 11. The Kaluza-Klein black hole -- 12. Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes -- 13. Unbroken supersymmetry -- Pt. III. Gravitating extended objects of string theory -- 14. String theory -- 15. The string effective action and T duality -- 16. From eleven to four dimensions -- 17. The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality -- 18. Extended objects -- 19. The extended objects of string theory -- 20. String black holes in four and five dimensions -- App. A. Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang-Mills fields -- App. B. Gamma matrices and spinors -- App. C. n-Spheres -- App. D. Palatini's identity -- App. E. Conformal rescalings -- App. F. Connections and curvature components -- App. G. The harmonic operator on R[superscript 3] x S[superscript 1]

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