Gravity and strings

by Ortín, Tomás

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Title Statements

Full title :Gravity and strings / Tomás Ortín, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 1015 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521768139, 0521768136
oclc:ocn885982715
LC Classification:QC178
Dewey Decimal:539.7/258

Differential geometry -- Symmetries and Noether's theorems -- A perturbative introduction to general relativity -- Action principles for gravity -- Pure N=1,2,d=4 supergravities -- Matter-coupled N=1,d=4 supergravity -- Matter-coupled N=2,d=4 supergravity -- A generic description of all the N≥2,d=4 SUEGRAs -- Matter-coupled N=1,d=5 supergravity -- Conserved charges in general relativity -- The Schwarzschild black hole -- The Reissner-Nordström black hole -- The Taub-NUT solution -- Gravitational pp-waves -- The Kaluza-Klein black hole -- Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes -- Unbroken supersymmetry I : supersymmetric vacua -- Unbroken supersymmetry II : partially supersymmetric solutions -- Supersymmetric black holes from supergravity -- String theory -- The string effective action and T duality -- From eleven to four dimensions -- The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality -- Extended objects -- The extended objects of string theory -- String black holes in four and five dimensions -- The FGK formalism for (single, static) black holes and branes.

Subjects

Gravitation Gravité quantique QUANTENGRAVITATION QUANTUM GRAVITY Quantum theory Schwarzes Loch String models String theory Stringtheorie Supergravitation Supergravity