Gravity and strings / Tomás Ortín.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortín, Tomás, 1964- author.

Series:

Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.

Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum gravity.

String models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 684 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gravity & Strings

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One appealing feature of string theory is that it provides a theory of quantum gravity. Gravity and Strings is a self-contained, pedagogical exposition of this theory, its foundations and its basic results. In Part I, the foundations are traced back to the very early special-relativistic field theories of gravity, showing how such theories lead to general relativity. Gauge theories of gravity are then discussed and used to introduce supergravity theories. In Part II, some of the most interesting solutions of general relativity and its generalizations are studied. The final Part presents and studies string theory from the effective action point of view, using the results found earlier in the book as background. This 2004 book will be useful as a reference book for graduate students and researchers, as well as a complementary textbook for courses on gravity, supergravity and string theory.

Contents:

Pt. I. Introduction to gravity and supergravity

1. Differential geometry

2. Noether's theorems

3. A perturbative introduction to general relativity

4. Action principles for gravity

5. N = 1, 2, d = 4 supergravities

6. Conserved charges in general relativity

Pt. II. Gravitating point-particles

7. The Schwarzschild black hole

8. The Reissner-Nordstrom black hole

9. The Taub-NUT solution

10. Gravitational pp-waves

11. The Kaluza-Klein black hole

12. Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes

13. Unbroken supersymmetry

Pt. III. Gravitating extended objects of string theory

14. String theory

15. The string effective action and T duality

16. From eleven to four dimensions

17. The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality

18. Extended objects

19. The extended objects of string theory

20. String black holes in four and five dimensions

App. A. Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang-Mills fields

App. B. Gamma matrices and spinors

App. C. n-Spheres

App. D. Palatini's identity

App. E. Conformal rescalings

App. F. Connections and curvature components

App. G. The harmonic operator on R[superscript 3] x S[superscript 1]

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14650-X

1-280-45793-7

9786610457939

0-511-18559-6

0-511-18476-X

0-511-18740-8

0-511-32416-2

0-511-61656-2

0-511-18647-9

OCLC:

76963118