02579nam a2200373Ia 4500 ebr10124667 CaPaEBR 20260707183805.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 030903s2004 enk sb 001 0 eng d 2003055929 0511187408 0521824753 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)647488943 QC178 .O78 2004eb 530.14 22 148860 120112 Ortín, Tomás, 1964- 189128 Gravity and strings [electronic resource] / Tomás Ortín. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx, 684 p. Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics Includes bibliographical references and index. 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] Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Quantum gravity. 99375 String models. 159585 Electronic books. local 190 ebrary, Inc. 191 Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics. 90042 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10124667 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 148860 120112