Gravity, a Geometrical Course Volume 2: Black Holes, Cosmology and Introduction to Supergravity /

• Main Author: Frè, Pietro Giuseppe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

‘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, astrophysi...

Table of Contents:

• 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.