Supergravity: From First Principles to Modern Applications
This book is about supergravity, which combines the principles of general relativity and local gauge invariance with the idea of supersymmetries between bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. The authors give a thorough and pedagogical introduction to the subject suitable for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students in theoretical high energy physics or mathematical physics. Interested researchers working in these or related areas are also addressed. The level of the presentatio…
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- Full title :Supergravity : From First Principles to Modern Applications / Gianguido Dall'Agata [aut]; Marco Zagermann [aut]
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This book is about supergravity, which combines the principles of general relativity and local gauge invariance with the idea of supersymmetries between bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. The authors give a thorough and pedagogical introduction to the subject suitable for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students in theoretical high energy physics or mathematical physics. Interested researchers working in these or related areas are also addressed. The level of the presentation assumes a working knowledge of general relativity and basic notions of differential geometry as well as some familiarity with global supersymmetry in relativistic field theories. Bypassing curved superspace and other more technical approaches, the book starts from the simple idea of supersymmetry as a local gauge symmetry and derives the mathematical and physical properties of supergravity in a direct and "minimalistic" way, using a combination of explicit computations and geometrical reasoning. Key topics include spinors in curved spacetime, pure supergravity with and without a cosmological constant, matter couplings in global and local supersymmetry, phenomenological and cosmological implications, extended supergravity, gauged supergravity and supergravity in higher spacetime dimensions.
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- Publication Date:2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Berlin, Heidelberg
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783662639801, 3662639807, 9783662639795, 3662639793, 9783662639788, 3662639785
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-63980-1
- oclc:on1346759670
Table of Contents
Introduction -- From Global to Local SUSY -- Gravity and spinors -- D=4 N=1 SUGRA -- Matter couplings in global SUSY -- Matter couplings in SUGRA -- SUGRA phenomenology -- Extended supergravities -- Gauged supergravity -- SUGRA in any dimension.
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