Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- Part II Gravitating Point-Particles
- 11 The Schwarzschild Black Hole
- 12 The Reissner–Nordström black hole
- 13 The Taub–NUT solution
- 14 Gravitational pp-waves
- 15 The Kaluza–Klein black hole
- 16 Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes
- 17 Unbroken supersymmetry I: supersymmetric vacua
- 18 Unbroken supersymmetry II: partially supersymmetric solutions
- 19 Supersymmetric black holes from supergravity
- Part III Gravitating extended objects of string theory
- Appendix A Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
- Appendix B The irreducible, non-symmetric Riemannian spaces of special holonomy
- Appendix C Miscellanea on the symplectic group
- Appendix D Gamma matrices and spinors
- Appendix E Kähler geometry
- Appendix F Special Kähler geometry
- Appendix G Quaternionic-Kähler geometry
- Appendix H Real special geometry
- Appendix I The generic scalar manifolds of N ≥ 2, d = 4 SUEGRAs
- Appendix J Gauging isometries of non-linear σ-models
- Appendix K n-spheres
- Appendix L Palatini's identity
- Appendix M Conformal rescalings
- Appendix N Connections and curvature components
- Appendix O The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
- References
- Index
14 - Gravitational pp-waves
from Part II - Gravitating Point-Particles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Part I Introduction to gravity and supergravity
- Part II Gravitating Point-Particles
- 11 The Schwarzschild Black Hole
- 12 The Reissner–Nordström black hole
- 13 The Taub–NUT solution
- 14 Gravitational pp-waves
- 15 The Kaluza–Klein black hole
- 16 Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes
- 17 Unbroken supersymmetry I: supersymmetric vacua
- 18 Unbroken supersymmetry II: partially supersymmetric solutions
- 19 Supersymmetric black holes from supergravity
- Part III Gravitating extended objects of string theory
- Appendix A Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang–Mills fields
- Appendix B The irreducible, non-symmetric Riemannian spaces of special holonomy
- Appendix C Miscellanea on the symplectic group
- Appendix D Gamma matrices and spinors
- Appendix E Kähler geometry
- Appendix F Special Kähler geometry
- Appendix G Quaternionic-Kähler geometry
- Appendix H Real special geometry
- Appendix I The generic scalar manifolds of N ≥ 2, d = 4 SUEGRAs
- Appendix J Gauging isometries of non-linear σ-models
- Appendix K n-spheres
- Appendix L Palatini's identity
- Appendix M Conformal rescalings
- Appendix N Connections and curvature components
- Appendix O The harmonic operator on ℝ3 × S1
- References
- Index
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- Gravity and Strings , pp. 394 - 401Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015