Sergio Cecotti ( Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

Supersymmetric Field Theories

Geometric Structures and Dualities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Adopting an elegant geometrical approach, this advanced pedagogical text describes deep and intuitive methods for understanding the subtle logic of supersymmetry while avoiding lengthy and complex computations. A self-contained toolkit of useful techniques, formulae and constructions, and an outstanding resource for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 182mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 972g
• ISBN-13: 9781107053816
• ISBN-10: 1107053811
• Artikelnr.: 41607878

Autorenporträt

Sergio Cecotti is an Associate Professor at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. How Geometry Arises: 1. Geometrical structures in (Q)FT
2. Extended supersymmetry in diverse dimensions
Part II. Geometry and Extended Susy: 3. Parallel structures and holonomy
4. Susy/sugra Lagrangians and U-duality
5. ¿-models and symmetric spaces
6. Killing spinors and rigid susy in curved spaces
7. Parallel structures and isometries
8. Gauging and potential terms
Part III. Special Geometries: 9. Kähler and Hodge manifolds
10. N=1 supergravity in 4D
11. Flag manifolds. Variations of Hodge structures
12. Four-dimensional N=2 supergravity.