Supergravity And Superstrings: A Geometric Perspective (In 3 Volumes)
Supergravity And Superstrings: A Geometric Perspective (In 3 Volumes)

Author: Castellani Leonardo

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 1991-06-11

Total Pages: 2216

ISBN-13: 9814590738

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This book provides a self-contained presentation of supergravity theories from its fundamentals to its most recent union with string and superstring theories, which are also reviewed in a self-contained manner. The subject is presented consistently in a unified geometric formalism, relying on the calculus of exterior forms and the mathematics needed to develop the theory is explained in appropriate chapters.

The World in Eleven Dimensions
The World in Eleven Dimensions

Author: M.J Duff

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1482268736

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A unified theory embracing all physical phenomena is a major goal of theoretical physics. In the early 1980s, many physicists looked to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the hope that it might provide that elusive superunified theory. In 1984 supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings, one-dimensional objects whose v