Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- 1 Differential geometry
- 2 Noether's theorems
- 3 A perturbative introduction to general relativity
- 4 Action principles for gravity
- 5 N = 1, 2, d = 4 supergravities
- 6 Conserved charges in general relativity
- Part II Gravitating point-particles
- Part III Gravitating extended objects of string theory
- 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
2 - Noether's theorems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- 1 Differential geometry
- 2 Noether's theorems
- 3 A perturbative introduction to general relativity
- 4 Action principles for gravity
- 5 N = 1, 2, d = 4 supergravities
- 6 Conserved charges in general relativity
- Part II Gravitating point-particles
- Part III Gravitating extended objects of string theory
- 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. 26 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004