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100 1 _aOrtin, Tomas,
_d1964-
245 1 0 _aGravity and strings
_h[electronic resource] /
_cTomas Ortin.
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2004.
300 _axx, 684 p.
490 1 _aCambridge monographs on mathematical physics
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPt. 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]
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aQuantum gravity.
650 0 _aString models.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aCambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=256675
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