- Description
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 1015 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
- Uniform Title
- Gravity and strings (Online)
- Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
- Alternative Title
- Gravity and strings (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 969-1001) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2014017469
- OCLC
- ssj0001461819
- Author
Ortín, Tomás, 1964-
- Title
Gravity and strings [electronic resource] / Tomás Ortín, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
- Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Edition
Second edition.
- Series
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 969-1001) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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