Adopting an elegant geometrical approach, this advanced pedagogical text describes deep and intuitive methods for understanding the subtle logic of supersymmetry while avoiding lengthy computations. The book describes how complex results and formulae obtained using other approaches can be significantly simplified when translated to a geometric setting. Introductory chapters describe geometric structures in field theory in the general case, while detailed later chapters address specific structures such as parallel tensor fields, G-structures, and isometry groups. The relationship between structures in supergravity and periodic maps of algebraic manifolds, Kodaira–Spencer theory, modularity, and the arithmetic properties of supergravity are also addressed. Relevant geometric concepts are introduced and described in detail, providing a self-contained toolkit of useful techniques, formulae and constructions. Covering all the material necessary for the application of supersymmetric field theories to fundamental physical questions, this is an outstanding resource for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics.
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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. σ-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.
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Adopting an elegant geometrical approach, this advanced pedagogical text describes intuitive methods for understanding the subtle logic of supersymmetry.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781107053816
Publisert
2015-01-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
1000 gr
Høyde
253 mm
Bredde
180 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
424

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Biographical note

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