Ortin, Tomas,  1964- <br/><br/>
Gravity and strings  [electronic resource] / 
Tomas Ortin. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2004. 
 - xx, 684 p. 
 - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics .
 - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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] 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Quantum gravity.<br/>String models.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC178  / .O78 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.14