Gravity and Strings

Tomás Ortín

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511616563

One appealing feature of string theory is that it provides a theory of quantum gravity. Gravity and Strings is a self-contained, pedagogical exposition of this theory, its foundations and its basic results. In Part I, the foundations are traced back to the very early special-relativistic field theories of gravity, showing how such theories lead to general relativity. Gauge theories of gravity are then discussed and used to introduce supergravity theories. In Part II, some of the most interesting solutions of general relativity and its generalizations are studied. The final Part presents and studies string theory from the effective action point of view, using the results found earlier in the book as background. This 2004 book will be useful as a reference book for graduate students and researchers, as well as a complementary textbook for courses on gravity, supergravity and string theory.

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Appendix E - Conformal rescalings
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Appendix F - Connections and curvature components
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Appendix G - The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
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Appendix E - Conformal rescalings
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Appendix G - The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
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Appendix E - Conformal rescalings pp 639-639

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Appendix G - The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1 pp 648-649

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Index pp 671-684

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Appendix E - Conformal rescalings
pp 639-639

Appendix F - Connections and curvature components
pp 640-647

Appendix G - The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
pp 648-649

References
pp 650-670

Index
pp 671-684