Gravity and Strings

Tomás Ortín

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780521768139
• eBook ISBN: 9781316235799
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Mathematical & Computational Physics

Self-contained and comprehensive, this definitive new edition of Gravity and Strings is a unique resource for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics. From basic differential geometry through to the construction and study of black-hole and black-brane solutions in quantum gravity - via all the intermediate stages - this book provides a complete overview of the intersection of gravity, supergravity, and superstrings. Now fully revised, this second edition covers an extensive array of topics, including new material on non-linear electric-magnetic duality, the electric-tensor formalism, matter-coupled supergravity, supersymmetric solutions, the geometries of scalar manifolds appearing in 4- and 5-dimensional supergravities, and much more. Covering reviews of important solutions and numerous solution-generating techniques, and accompanied by an exhaustive index and bibliography, this is an exceptional reference work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• Preface to the second edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
• Part II Gravitating point-particles
• Part III Gravitating extended objects of string theory
• Appendix A Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
• Appendix B The irreducible, non-symmetric Riemannian spaces of special holonomy
• Appendix C Miscellanea on the symplectic group
• Appendix D Gamma matrices and spinors
• Appendix E Kähler geometry
• Appendix F Special Kähler geometry
• Appendix G Quaternionic-Kähler geometry
• Appendix H Real special geometry
• Appendix I The generic scalar manifolds of N ≥ 2, d = 4 SUEGRAs
• Appendix J Gauging isometries of non-linear σ-models
• Appendix K n-spheres
• Appendix L Palatini’s identity
• Appendix M Conformal rescalings
• Appendix N Connections and curvature components
• Appendix O The harmonic operator on mathbb R [sup(3)] X S[sup(1)]
• References
• Index