Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- Part II Gravitating point-particles
- Part III Gravitating extended objects of string theory
- 14 String theory
- 15 The string effective action and T duality
- 16 From eleven to four dimensions
- 17 The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality
- 18 Extended objects
- 19 The extended objects of string theory
- 20 String black holes in four and five dimensions
- Appendix A Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
- Appendix B Gamma matrices and spinors
- Appendix C n-Spheres
- Appendix D Palatini's identity
- Appendix E Conformal rescalings
- Appendix F Connections and curvature components
- Appendix G The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
- References
- Index
16 - From eleven to four dimensions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- Part II Gravitating point-particles
- Part III Gravitating extended objects of string theory
- 14 String theory
- 15 The string effective action and T duality
- 16 From eleven to four dimensions
- 17 The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality
- 18 Extended objects
- 19 The extended objects of string theory
- 20 String black holes in four and five dimensions
- Appendix A Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
- Appendix B Gamma matrices and spinors
- Appendix C n-Spheres
- Appendix D Palatini's identity
- Appendix E Conformal rescalings
- Appendix F Connections and curvature components
- Appendix G The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Gravity and Strings , pp. 447 - 484Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004