Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- 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
Part II - Gravitating point-particles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- 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
Summary
[The Universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.
Galileo Galilei- Type
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- Gravity and Strings , pp. 185 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004