TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ortin,Tomas
TI  - Gravity and strings
T2  - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
SN  - 9780521768139 (hardback)
U1  - 530.14 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Quantum gravity
KW  - String models
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Differential geometry --
2. Symmetries and Noether's theorems --
3. A perturbative introduction to general relativity --
4. Action principles for gravity --
5. Pure N=1,2,d=4 supergravities --
6. Matter-coupled N=1,d=4 supergravity --
7. Matter-coupled N=2,d=4 supergravity --
8. A generic description of all the N≥2,d=4 SUEGRAs --
9. Matter-coupled N=1,d=5 supergravity --
10. Conserved charges in general relativity --
11. The Schwarzschild black hole --
12. The Reissner-Nordström black hole --
13. The Taub-NUT solution --
14. Gravitational pp-waves --
15. The Kaluza-Klein black hole --
16. Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes --
17. Unbroken supersymmetry I : supersymmetric vacua --
18. Unbroken supersymmetry II : partially supersymmetric solutions --
19. Supersymmetric black holes from supergravity --
20. String theory --
21. The string effective action and T duality --
22. From eleven to four dimensions --
23. The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality --
24. Extended objects --
25. The extended objects of string theory --
26. String black holes in four and five dimensions --
27. The FGK formalism for (single, static) black holes and branes --
Appendixes --
References --
Index
N2  - Self-contained and comprehensive, this definitive new edition provides a complete overview of the intersection of gravity, supergravity, and superstrings
ER  -