Gravity and Strings
Gravity and Strings
£123.00
GBPSelf-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.
- Fully revised to include over 300 pages of additional material and 13 additional chapters
- Introduces novel examples of explicit solutions
- Includes an extensive bibliography, making it easy to locate relevant primary literature
Product details
March 2015Hardback
9780521768139
1048 pages
254 × 180 × 63 mm
1.99kg
43 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Differential geometry
- 2. Symmetries and Noether's theorems
- 3. A perturbative introduction to general relativity
- 4. Action principles for gravity
- 5. Pure N=1,2,d=4 supergravities
- 6. Matter-coupled N=1,d=4 supergravity
- 7. Matter-coupled N=2,d=4 supergravity
- 8. A generic description of all the N>2,d=4 SUEGRAS
- 9. Matter-coupled N=1,d=5 supergravity
- 10. Conserved charges in general relativity
- 11. The Schwarzschild black hole
- 12. The Reissner–Nordström black hole
- 13. The Taub–NUT solution
- 14. Gravitational pp-waves
- 15. The Kaluza–Klein black hole
- 16. Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes
- 17. Unbroken supersymmetry I: supersymmetric vacua
- 18. Unbroken supersymmetry II: partially supersymmetric solutions
- 19. Supersymmetric black holes from supergravity
- 20. String theory
- 21. The string effective action and T duality
- 22. From eleven to four dimensions
- 23. The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality
- 24. Extended objects
- 25. The extended objects of string theory
- 26. String black holes in four and five dimensions
- 27. The FGK formalism for (single, static) black holes and branes
- Appendices: A.1 Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
- A.2 The irreducible, non-symmetric Riemannian spaces of special holonomy
- A.3 Miscellanea on the symplectic group
- A.4 Gamma matrices and spinors
- A.5 Kähler geometry
- A.6 Special Kähler geometry
- A.7 Quaternionic-Kähler geometry.
