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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23 - The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality
pp 688-702
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24 - Extended objects
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25 - The extended objects of string theory
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26 - String black holes in four and five dimensions
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27 - The FGK formalism for (single, static) black holes and branes
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Appendix A - Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
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Appendix B - The irreducible, non-symmetric Riemannian spaces of special holonomy
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Appendix C - Miscellanea on the symplectic group
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Appendix D - Gamma matrices and spinors
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Appendix E - Kähler geometry
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Appendix F - Special Kähler geometry
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Appendix G - Quaternionic-Kähler geometry
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Appendix H - Real special geometry
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Appendix I - The generic scalar manifolds of N ≥ 2, d = 4 SUEGRAs
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Appendix J - Gauging isometries of non-linear σ-models
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Appendix K - n-spheres
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Appendix L - Palatini's identity
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Appendix M - Conformal rescalings
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Appendix N - Connections and curvature components
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Appendix O - The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
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References
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Index
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23 - The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality
pp 688-702

24 - Extended objects
pp 703-723

25 - The extended objects of string theory
pp 724-779

26 - String black holes in four and five dimensions
pp 780-797

27 - The FGK formalism for (single, static) black holes and branes
pp 798-829

Appendix A - Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
pp 830-848

Appendix B - The irreducible, non-symmetric Riemannian spaces of special holonomy
pp 849-850

Appendix C - Miscellanea on the symplectic group
pp 851-857

Appendix D - Gamma matrices and spinors
pp 858-892

Appendix E - Kähler geometry
pp 893-904

Appendix F - Special Kähler geometry
pp 905-913

Appendix G - Quaternionic-Kähler geometry
pp 914-922

Appendix H - Real special geometry
pp 923-927

Appendix I - The generic scalar manifolds of N ≥ 2, d = 4 SUEGRAs
pp 928-932

Appendix J - Gauging isometries of non-linear σ-models
pp 933-948

Appendix K - n-spheres
pp 949-952

Appendix L - Palatini's identity
pp 953-953

Appendix M - Conformal rescalings
pp 954-954

Appendix N - Connections and curvature components
pp 955-966

Appendix O - The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
pp 967-968

References
pp 969-1001

Index
pp 1002-1015

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