Gravity and strings
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10124667 |
Table of 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]