Gravity, a Geometrical Course (Record no. 99627)

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International Standard Book Number 9789400754430
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-94-007-5443-0
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Classification number QC178
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Classification number QC173.5-173.65
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Classification number 530.1
Edition number 23
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Personal name Frè, Pietro Giuseppe.
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Title Gravity, a Geometrical Course
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Volume 2: Black Holes, Cosmology and Introduction to Supergravity /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Pietro Giuseppe Frè.
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Extent XX, 456 p. 104 illus., 9 illus. in color.
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Formatted contents note Acknowledgement -- Preface -- 1 -- Introduction -- 2. Extended Space-Times, Causal Structure and Penrose Diagrams -- 3. Rotating Black-Holes and Thermodynamics -- 4. Cosmology: a Historical Outline from Kant to WMAP and Planck -- 5. Cosmology and General Relativity: Mathematical Description of the Universe -- 6. Supergravity: the Principles -- 7. The Branes: Three Viewpoints -- 8. Supergravity: a Bestiary in Diverse Dimensions -- 9. Supergravity: an Anthology of Solutions -- 10. Conclusion of Volume Two -- Appendix A. Spinors and gamma matrix algebra -- Appendix B. Auxiliary tools for p-brane actions -- Apprndix C. Auxiliary information about some superalgebras -- Appendix D. Mathematica Package NOVAMANIFOLDA -- Appendix E. Examples of the use of the package NOVAMANIFOLDA -- Index.
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Summary, etc ‘Gravity, a Geometrical Course’ presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture: i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism, ii) the main physical, astrophysical and cosmological applications,  updated to the issues of contemporary research and observations, with glimpses on supergravity and superstring theory, iii) the historical development of scientific ideas underlying both the birth of general relativity and its subsequent evolution. The book is divided in two volumes.  Volume Two is covers black holes, cosmology and an introduction to supergravity. The aim of this volume is two-fold. It completes the presentation of GR and it introduces the reader to theory of gravitation beyond GR, which is supergravity.  Starting with a short history of the black hole concept,  the book covers the Kruskal extension of the Schwarzschild metric, the causal structures of Lorentzian manifolds, Penrose diagrams and a detailed analysis of the Kerr-Newman metric. An extensive historical account of the development of modern cosmology is followed by a detailed presentation of its mathematical structure, including non-isotropic cosmologies and billiards, de Sitter space and inflationary scenarios, perturbation theory and anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The last three chapters deal with the mathematical and conceptual foundations of supergravity in the frame of free differential algebras.  Branes are presented both as classical solutions of the bulk theory and as world-volume gauge theories with particular emphasis on the geometrical interpretation of kappa-supersymmetry. The rich bestiary of special geometries underlying supergravity lagrangians is  presented, followed by a chapter providing glances on the equally rich collection of special solutions of supergravity.  Pietro Frè is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Torino, Italy. He has taught General Relativity for 15 years.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.
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International Standard Book Number 9789400754423
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5443-0
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