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| Other authors / contributors: | Zagermann, Marco, author.
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| ISBN: | 9783662639801
3662639807
9783662639788
3662639785
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 4, 2021).
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| Summary: | This book is about supergravity, which combines the principles of general relativity and local gauge invariance with the idea of supersymmetries between bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. The authors give a thorough and pedagogical introduction to the subject suitable for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students in theoretical high energy physics or mathematical physics. Interested researchers working in these or related areas are also addressed. The level of the presentation assumes a working knowledge of general relativity and basic notions of differential geometry as well as some familiarity with global supersymmetry in relativistic field theories. Bypassing curved superspace and other more technical approaches, the book starts from the simple idea of supersymmetry as a local gauge symmetry and derives the mathematical and physical properties of supergravity in a direct and "minimalisti" way, using a combination of explicit computations and geometrical reasoning. Key topics include spinors in curved spacetime, pure supergravity with and without a cosmological constant, matter couplings in global and local supersymmetry, phenomenological and cosmological implications, extended supergravity, gauged supergravity and supergravity in higher spacetime dimensions.
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| Other form: | Original 3662639785 9783662639788
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-662-63980-1
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