Gravity and Strings

Tomás Ortín

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139019750

Self-contained and comprehensive, this definitive new edition of Gravity and Strings is a unique resource for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics. From basic differential geometry through to the construction and study of black-hole and black-brane solutions in quantum gravity - via all the intermediate stages - this book provides a complete overview of the intersection of gravity, supergravity, and superstrings. Now fully revised, this second edition covers an extensive array of topics, including new material on non-linear electric-magnetic duality, the electric-tensor formalism, matter-coupled supergravity, supersymmetric solutions, the geometries of scalar manifolds appearing in 4- and 5-dimensional supergravities, and much more. Covering reviews of important solutions and numerous solution-generating techniques, and accompanied by an exhaustive index and bibliography, this is an exceptional reference work.

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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Contents
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Preface to the second edition
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Preface to the first edition
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Part I - Introduction to gravity and supergravity
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1 - Differential geometry
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2 - Symmetries and Noether's theorems
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3 - A perturbative introduction to general relativity
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4 - Action principles for gravity
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5 - Pure N = 1, 2, d = 4 supergravities
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6 - Matter-coupled N = 1, d = 4 supergravity
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7 - Matter-coupled N = 2, d = 4 supergravity
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8 - A generic description of all the N ≥ 2, d = 4 SUEGRAs
pp 256-262
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9 - Matter-coupled N = 1, d = 5 supergravity
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10 - Conserved charges in general relativity
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Part II - Gravitating Point-Particles
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11 - The Schwarzschild Black Hole
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12 - The Reissner–Nordström black hole
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13 - The Taub–NUT solution
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14 - Gravitational pp-waves
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15 - The Kaluza–Klein black hole
pp 402-463
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16 - Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes
pp 464-483
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17 - Unbroken supersymmetry I: supersymmetric vacua
pp 484-511
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18 - Unbroken supersymmetry II: partially supersymmetric solutions
pp 512-561
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19 - Supersymmetric black holes from supergravity
pp 562-604
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Part III - Gravitating extended objects of string theory
pp 605-606
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20 - String Theory
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21 - The String Effective Action And T Duality
pp 632-649
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22 - From Eleven To Four Dimensions
pp 650-687
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