- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
- Subject
- 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.
- ISBN
- OCLC
- 906944237
- Author
Ortín, Tomás, 1964- author.
- Title
Gravity and strings / Tomás Ortín, Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Edition
Second edition.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
- Source of description
Print version record.
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Print version: Ortín, Tomás, 1964- author. Gravity and strings. Second edition 9780521768139 (DLC) 2014017469 (OCoLC)885982715