Gravity and strings / Tomás Ortín, Spanish Research Council (CSIC).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortín, Tomás, 1964- author.

Series:

Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum gravity.

String models.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 1015 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Contents:

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-Nordstrom 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 969-1001) and index.

ISBN:

9780521768139

0521768136

OCLC:

885982715