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Gravity, a Geometrical Course [electronic resource] : Volume 2: Black Holes, Cosmology and Introduction to Supergravity / by Pietro Giuseppe Frè.
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- ISBN: 9789400754430
- Physical Description: XX, 456 p. 104 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.
- Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : 2013.
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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.. |
