Supergravity

Author : Daniel Z. Freedman,Antoine Van Proeyen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139642859

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Supergravity by Daniel Z. Freedman,Antoine Van Proeyen Pdf

Supergravity, together with string theory, is one of the most significant developments in theoretical physics. Written by two of the most respected workers in the field, this is the first-ever authoritative and systematic account of supergravity. The book starts by reviewing aspects of relativistic field theory in Minkowski spacetime. After introducing the relevant ingredients of differential geometry and gravity, some basic supergravity theories (D=4 and D=11) and the main gauge theory tools are explained. In the second half of the book, complex geometry and N=1 and N=2 supergravity theories are covered. Classical solutions and a chapter on AdS/CFT complete the book. Numerous exercises and examples make it ideal for Ph.D. students, and with applications to model building, cosmology and solutions of supergravity theories, it is also invaluable to researchers. A website hosted by the authors, featuring solutions to some exercises and additional reading material, can be found at www.cambridge.org/supergravity.

Author : International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521247381

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Supergravity 1981 by International Centre for Theoretical Physics Pdf

Author : Gianguido Dall'Agata,Marco Zagermann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662639801

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Supergravity by Gianguido Dall'Agata,Marco Zagermann Pdf

This book is about supergravity, which combines the principles of general relativity and local gauge invariance with the idea of supersymmetries between bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. The authors give a thorough and pedagogical introduction to the subject suitable for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students in theoretical high energy physics or mathematical physics. Interested researchers working in these or related areas are also addressed. The level of the presentation assumes a working knowledge of general relativity and basic notions of differential geometry as well as some familiarity with global supersymmetry in relativistic field theories. Bypassing curved superspace and other more technical approaches, the book starts from the simple idea of supersymmetry as a local gauge symmetry and derives the mathematical and physical properties of supergravity in a direct and “minimalistic” way, using a combination of explicit computations and geometrical reasoning. Key topics include spinors in curved spacetime, pure supergravity with and without a cosmological constant, matter couplings in global and local supersymmetry, phenomenological and cosmological implications, extended supergravity, gauged supergravity and supergravity in higher spacetime dimensions.

Author : S. W. Hawking,M. Rocek
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521239087

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Superspace and Supergravity by S. W. Hawking,M. Rocek Pdf

Author : Yoshiaki Tanii
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431548287

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Introduction to Supergravity by Yoshiaki Tanii Pdf

This book is a pedagogical introduction to supergravity, a gravitational field theory that includes supersymmetry (symmetry between bosons and fermions) and is a generalization of Einstein's general relativity. Supergravity provides a low-energy effective theory of superstring theory, which has attracted much attention as a candidate for the unified theory of fundamental particles, and it is a useful tool for studying non-perturbative properties of superstring theory such as D-branes and string duality. This work considers classical supergravities in four and higher spacetime dimensions with their applications to superstring theory in mind. More concretely, it discusses classical Lagrangians (or field equations) and symmetry properties of supergravities. Besides local symmetries, supergravities often have global non-compact symmetries, which play a crucial role in their applications to superstring theory. One of the main features of this book is its detailed discussion of these non-compact symmetries. The aim of the book is twofold. One is to explain the basic ideas of supergravity to those who are not familiar with it. Toward that end, the discussions are made both pedagogical and concrete by stating equations explicitly. The other is to collect relevant formulae in one place so as to be useful for applications to string theory. The subjects discussed in this book include the vielbein formulation of gravity, supergravities in four dimensions, possible types of spinors in various dimensions, superalgebras and supermultiplets, non-linear sigma models for non-compact Lie groups, electric-magnetic duality symmetries, supergravities in higher dimensions, dimensional reductions, and gauged and massive supergravities.

Author : Stefano Bellucci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319037745

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Breaking of Supersymmetry and Ultraviolet Divergences in Extended Supergravity by Stefano Bellucci Pdf

This is the seventh volume in a series on the general topics of supersymmetry, supergravity, black objects (including black holes) and the attractor mechanism. The present volume is based on lectures held in March 2013 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati during the Breaking of supersymmetry and Ultraviolet Divergences in extended Supergravity Workshop (BUDS 2013), organized by Stefano Bellucci, with the participation of prestigious speakers including P. Aschieri, E. Bergshoeff, M. Cederwall, T. Dennen, P. Di Vecchia, S. Ferrara, R. Kallosh, A. Karlsson, M. Koehn, B. Ovrut, A. Van Proeyen, G. Ruppeiner. Special attention is devoted to discussing topics related to the cancellation of ultraviolet divergences in extended supergravity and Born-Infeld-like actions. All talks were followed by extensive discussions and subsequent reworking of the various contributions a feature which is reflected in the unique "flavor" of this volume.

Author : Stefano Bellucci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319002156

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Black Objects in Supergravity by Stefano Bellucci Pdf

This is the sixth volume in a series of books on the general topics of supersymmetry, supergravity, black holes and the attractor mechanism. The present volume is based upon lectures held in May 2011 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on Black Objects in Supergravity (BOSS2011), directed by Stefano Bellucci, with the participation of prestigious lecturers, including G. Lopes Cardoso, W. Chemissany, T. Ortin, J. Perz, O. Vaughan, D. Turton, L. Lusanna and S. Ferrara. All lectures were at a pedagogical, introductory level, a feature which is reflected in the specific "flavor" of this volume, which also benefited greatly from extensive discussions and related reworking of the various contributions.

Author : Pran Nath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521197021

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Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Unification by Pran Nath Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive discussion of developments at the interface of particle physics, supergravity, and cosmology, for graduates and researchers.

Author : Pietro Giuseppe Frè
Publisher : Springer
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319744919

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Advances in Geometry and Lie Algebras from Supergravity by Pietro Giuseppe Frè Pdf

This book aims to provide an overview of several topics in advanced differential geometry and Lie group theory, all of them stemming from mathematical problems in supersymmetric physical theories. It presents a mathematical illustration of the main development in geometry and symmetry theory that occurred under the fertilizing influence of supersymmetry/supergravity. The contents are mainly of mathematical nature, but each topic is introduced by historical information and enriched with motivations from high energy physics, which help the reader in getting a deeper comprehension of the subject.

Author : Michel Rausch De Traubenberg,Mauricio Valenzuela
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811210532

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Supergravity Primer, A: From Geometrical Principles To The Final Lagrangian by Michel Rausch De Traubenberg,Mauricio Valenzuela Pdf

This book is devoted to a pedagogical introduction to supergravity from a practical perspective. As a particular feature of the book, the authors provide explicit details, which makes the computations easier to follow for the interested reader. Each chapter has summary tables, which contain the main results and, in addition, we have collected important or additional material in the appendix.In the first part of the book, the N=1 supergravity Lagrangian in four spacetime dimensions is derived. Closely following the reference of Wess and Bagger, we use the superspace approach. All steps, from the geometric principles of curved superspace to the field redefinition necessary to obtain a correctly normalised Lagrangian, are carefully analysed. Comparisons with other methods, such as conformal supergravity, are also given.In the second part of the book, we address more phenomenological aspects of supergravity such as supersymmetry breaking, no-scale supergravity, super-Higgs mechanism, etc. Finally, the relationship between supergravity and particle physics, and cosmology are analysed.

Author : Jonathon A Bagger
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814543880

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Supersymmetry, Supergravity And Supercolliders (Tasi 1997) by Jonathon A Bagger Pdf

In June 1997, fifty-seven of the world's best students gathered at TASI '97 in Boulder, Colorado, USA, to attend an intensive series of lectures on the theory and phenomenology of supersymmetry, supergravity and supercolliders. This book contains the proceedings of that school. It is aimed at advanced graduate students as well as postdoctoral and other researchers. It provides a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in an active area of high energy particle theory, and may perhaps serve as a preview of physics to be discovered in the next decade.

Author : Edoardo Lauria,Antoine Van Proeyen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030337575

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N = 2 Supergravity in D = 4, 5, 6 Dimensions by Edoardo Lauria,Antoine Van Proeyen Pdf

This graduate-level primer presents a tutorial introduction to and overview of N = 2 supergravity theories - with 8 real supercharges and in 4, 5 and 6 dimensions. First, the construction of such theories by superconformal methods is explained in detail, and relevant special geometries are obtained and characterized. Following, the relation between the supergravity theories in the various dimensions is discussed. This leads eventually to the concept of very special geometry and quaternionic-Kähler manifolds. This concise text is a valuable resource for graduate students and young researchers wishing to enter the field quickly and efficiently.

Author : Mokhtar Hassaine,Jorge Zanelli
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814730952

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Chern–Simons (Super)Gravity by Mokhtar Hassaine,Jorge Zanelli Pdf

This book grew out of a set of lecture notes on gravitational Chern–Simons (CS) theories developed over the past decade for several schools and different audiences including graduate students and researchers. CS theories are gauge-invariant theories that can include gravity consistently. They are only defined in odd dimensions and represent a very special class of theories in the Lovelock family. Lovelock gravitation theories are the natural extensions of General Relativity for dimensions greater than four that yield second-order field equations for the metric. These theories also admit local supersymmetric extensions where supersymmetry is an off-shell symmetry of the action, as in a standard gauge theory. Apart from the arguments of mathematical elegance and beauty, the gravitational CS actions are exceptionally endowed with physical attributes that suggest the viability of a quantum interpretation. CS theories are gauge-invariant, scale-invariant and background independent; they have no dimensional coupling constants. All constants in the Lagrangian are fixed rational coefficients that cannot be adjusted without destroying gauge invariance. This exceptional status of CS systems makes them classically interesting to study, and quantum mechanically intriguing and promising. Contents:The Quantum Gravity PuzzleGeometry: General OverviewFirst Order Gravitation TheoryGravity in Higher DimensionsChern–Simons GravitiesAdditional Features of Chern–Simons GravityBlack Holes, Particles and BranesSupersymmetry and SupergravityChern–Simons SupergravitiesInönü–Wigner Contractions and Its ExtensionsUnconventional SupersymmetriesConcluding Remarks Readership: This book provides an introduction to Chern–Simons (super) gravity theories accessible for physics as well as mathematics graduate students and researchers. Key Features:The topics described in this book are self-contained and just require some basic background in physics and mathematics. Chern–Simons supergravity is a field which is intensively studied in the current literature of physics and mathematics, with more than 2000 articles related to this topic in the arXiv databaseThis title covers a topic not usually discussed either in standard gravity courses or in mathematical presentations of characteristic classes or cohomologyKeywords:Supergravity;Supersymmetry;Gauge Theory

Author : Siegfried Böhme,Ute Esser,Professor Dr. Walter Fricke,Inge Heinrich,Wilfried Hofmann,Dietlinde Krahn,Dorothea Rosa,Dr. Lutz D. Schmadel,Gert Zech
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662123225

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Literature 1980, Part 1 by Siegfried Böhme,Ute Esser,Professor Dr. Walter Fricke,Inge Heinrich,Wilfried Hofmann,Dietlinde Krahn,Dorothea Rosa,Dr. Lutz D. Schmadel,Gert Zech Pdf

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, which has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969, is de voted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. It is prepared under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (according to a resolution adopted at the 14th General Assembly in 1970). Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documentation of literature in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Every effort will be made to ensure that the average time interval between the date of receipt of the original literature and publication of the abstracts will not exceed eight months: This time interval is near to that achieved by monthly abstracting journals, com pared to which our system of accumulating abstracts for about six months offers the advantage of greater convenience for the user. I, 1980; some older Volume 27 contains literature published in 1980 and received before August literature which was received late and which is not recorded in earlier volumes is also included. We acknowledge with thanks contributions to this volume by Dr. J. Bouska, Prague, who surveyed journals and publications in Czech and supplied us with abstracts in English.

Author : Sergio M. Kuzenko
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0750305061

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Introduction to Supersymmetric Field Theory by Sergio M. Kuzenko Pdf

Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full discussions of the fundamental ideas and motivations. They develop the subject in its superfield formulations but where appropriate for illustration, analogy, and comparison with conventional field theory, they use the component formulation. The book discusses many subjects that, until now, can only be found in the research literature. In addition, it presents a plethora of new results. Combining classical and quantum field theory with group theory, differential geometry, and algebra, the book begins with a solid mathematical background that is used in the rest of the book. The next chapter covers algebraic aspects of supersymmetry and the concepts of superspace and superfield. In the following chapters, the book presents classical and quantum superfield theory and the superfield formulation of supergravity. A synthesis of results and methods developed in the book, the final chapter concludes with the theory of effective action in curved superspaces. After studying this book, readers should be well prepared to pursue independent research in any area of supersymmetry and supergravity. It will be an indispensable source of reference for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral faculty, and researchers involved in quantum field theory, high energy physics, gravity theory, mathematical physics, and applied mathematics.