Gravity and strings [electronic resource] / Tomás Ortín.

Pt. I. Introduction to gravity and supergravity
1. Differential geometry
2. Noether's theorems
3. A perturbative introduction to general relativity
4. Action principles for gravity
5. N = 1, 2, d = 4 supergravities
6. Conserved charges in general relativity
Pt. II. Gravitating point-particles
7. The Schwarzschild black hole
8. The Reissner-Nordstrom black hole
9. The Taub-NUT solution
10. Gravitational pp-waves
11. The Kaluza-Klein black hole
12. Dilaton and dilaton/axion black holes
13. Unbroken supersymmetry
Pt. III. Gravitating extended objects of string theory
14. String theory
15. The string effective action and T duality
16. From eleven to four dimensions
17. The type-IIB superstring and type-II T duality
18. Extended objects
19. The extended objects of string theory
20. String black holes in four and five dimensions
App. A. Lie groups, symmetric spaces, and Yang-Mills fields
App. B. Gamma matrices and spinors
App. C. n-Spheres
App. D. Palatini's identity
App. E. Conformal rescalings
App. F. Connections and curvature components
App. G. The harmonic operator on R[superscript 3] x S[superscript 1]