Gravity and strings

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ortín, Tomás, 1964-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
Subjects:
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
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]