Horatiu Nastase (Sao Paulo Universidade Estadual Paulista)

Gebundenes Buch

Introduction to Supergravity and its Applications

Beschreibung

This graduate textbook covers the basic formalism of supergravity, as well as a wide range of its modern applications, suitable for a focused first course. Assuming a working knowledge of quantum field theory, it gives Ph.D. students the tools they need to do research that uses supergravity.

Autor

Horäiu N¿stase is a researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of São Paulo. He completed his Ph.D. at Stony Brook with Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, co-discoverer of supergravity. While in Princeton as a postdoc, in a 2002 paper with David Berenstein and Juan Maldacena, he started the pp-wave correspondence, a sub-area of the AdS/CFT correspondence. He has written more than 100 scientific articles and 6 other books: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence (2015), String Theory Methods for Condensed Matter Physics (2017), Classical Field Theory (2019), Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (2019), Cosmology and String Theory (2019) and Quantum Mechanics: A Graduate Course (2022).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 988g
• ISBN-13: 9781009445597
• ISBN-10: 1009445596
• Artikelnr.: 70069888