Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Relativistic field theory in Minkowski spacetime
- Part II Differential geometry and gravity
- 7 Differential geometry
- 8 The first and second order formulations of general relativity
- Part III Basic supergravity
- Part IV Complex geometry and global SUSY
- Part V Superconformal construction of supergravity theories
- Part VI N = 1 supergravity actions and applications
- Part VII Extended N = 2 supergravity
- Part VIII Classical solutions and the AdS/CFT correspondence
- Appendix A Comparison of notation
- Appendix B Lie algebras and superalgebras
- References
- Index
7 - Differential geometry
from Part II - Differential geometry and gravity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Relativistic field theory in Minkowski spacetime
- Part II Differential geometry and gravity
- 7 Differential geometry
- 8 The first and second order formulations of general relativity
- Part III Basic supergravity
- Part IV Complex geometry and global SUSY
- Part V Superconformal construction of supergravity theories
- Part VI N = 1 supergravity actions and applications
- Part VII Extended N = 2 supergravity
- Part VIII Classical solutions and the AdS/CFT correspondence
- Appendix A Comparison of notation
- Appendix B Lie algebras and superalgebras
- References
- Index
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- Supergravity , pp. 135 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012