Geometry of String Theory Compactifications
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Geometry of String Theory Compactifications

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Geometry of String Theory Compactifications

About this book

String theory is a leading candidate for the unification of universal forces and matter, and one of its most striking predictions is the existence of small additional dimensions that have escaped detection so far. This book focuses on the geometry of these dimensions, beginning with the basics of the theory, the mathematical properties of spinors, and differential geometry. It further explores advanced techniques at the core of current research, such as G-structures and generalized complex geometry. Many significant classes of solutions to the theory's equations are studied in detail, from special holonomy and Sasaki–Einstein manifolds to their more recent generalizations involving fluxes for form fields. Various explicit examples are discussed, of interest to graduates and researchers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Conventions
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 String theory and supergravity
  10. 2 Spinors
  11. 3 From spinors to forms
  12. 4 Differential geometry
  13. 5 Geometry of forms
  14. 6 Kähler geometry
  15. 7 Ricci-flatness
  16. 8 Vacua and reductions
  17. 9 Minkowski compactifications
  18. 10 The vacuum problem in general
  19. 11 AdS vacua
  20. 12 Frontiers
  21. References
  22. Index