Supergravity And Superstrings: A Geometric Perspective (In 3 Volumes)
Title | Supergravity And Superstrings: A Geometric Perspective (In 3 Volumes) PDF eBook |
Author | Castellani Leonardo |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Company |
Pages | 2216 |
Release | 1991-06-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9814590738 |
This book provides a self-contained presentation of supergravity theories from its fundamentals to its most recent union with string and superstring theories, which are also reviewed in a self-contained manner. The subject is presented consistently in a unified geometric formalism, relying on the calculus of exterior forms and the mathematics needed to develop the theory is explained in appropriate chapters.
Gravity and Strings
Title | Gravity and Strings PDF eBook |
Author | Tomás Ortín |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1043 |
Release | 2015-03-26 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0521768136 |
Self-contained and comprehensive, this definitive new edition provides a complete overview of the intersection of gravity, supergravity, and superstrings.
Superstrings and Supergravity,
Title | Superstrings and Supergravity, PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew T. Davies |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The topics covered in this book include: Aspects of Quantum gravity. Introduction to supersymmetry. Supersymmetric field theories and the gauge covariant field theory of strings. Superspace and supergraphs. Connection between supergravity and strings. Introduction to superstring. Scatter coupling supergravity - general features and new results. Supersymmetry, supergravity and superstring phenomenology. Kaluza klein and superstrings.
Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory
Title | Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Michio Kaku |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 598 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1461205433 |
Called by some "the theory of everything," superstrings may solve a problem which has eluded physicists for the past 50 years -- the final unification of the two great theories of the twentieth century, general relativity and quantum field theory. This is a course-tested comprehensive introductory graduate text on superstrings which stresses the most current areas of interest, not covered in other presentation, including: string field theory, multi loops, Teichmueller spaces, conformal field theory, and four-dimensional strings. The book begins with a simple discussion of point particle theory, and uses the Feynman path integral technique to unify the presentation of superstrings. Prerequisites are an aquaintance with quantum mechanics and relativity. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout.
Strings, Branes And Gravity (Tasi 1999)
Title | Strings, Branes And Gravity (Tasi 1999) PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey A Harvey |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 954 |
Release | 2001-10-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9814489948 |
Many of the topics in this book are outgrowths of the spectacular new understanding of duality in string theory which emerged around 1995. They include the AdS/CFT correspondence and its relation to holography, the matrix theory formulation of M theory, the structure of black holes in string theory, the structure of D-branes and M-branes, and detailed development of dualities with N = 1 and N = 2 supersymmetry. In addition, there are lectures covering experimental and phenomenological aspects of the Standard Model and its extensions, and discussions on cosmology including both theoretical aspects and the exciting new experimental evidence for a non-zero cosmological constant.
Supergravity and Superstrings
Title | Supergravity and Superstrings PDF eBook |
Author | Leonardo Castellani |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated |
Pages | 2162 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9789971500375 |
This book provides a self-contained presentation of supergravity theories from its fundamentals to its most recent union with string and superstring theories, which are also reviewed in a self-contained manner. The subject is presented consistently in a unified geometric formalism, relying on the calculus of exterior forms and the mathematics needed to develop the theory is explained in appropriate chapters.
Supersymmetry and Its Applications
Title | Supersymmetry and Its Applications PDF eBook |
Author | G. W. Gibbons |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1986-06-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521307215 |
This volume contains papers presented at the Nuffield Workshop on supersymmetry and its applications held at Cambridge in the summer of 1985 and attended by many of the leading experts in the field. In physical terms, supersymmetry is a symmetry or gauge invariance which connects bosons (particles with integer spin) with fermions (particles with half integer spin). The study of supersymmetry has led to the construction of Yang-Mills theories, which are the first field theories to be free of the divergences that usually occur in quantum theories, with an infinite number of degrees of freedom. It has also led to the construction of supergravity and superstring theories which seem to be the best hope for a complete unified theory of all physical interactions including gravity. Supersymmetry and its Applications reviews a number of recent advances in the area of anomalies, the topology of gauge theories, superstrings, supergravity and super Yang-Mills theory.The papers, written by both physicists and mathematicians, include both expository articles and progress reports describing most recent developments.