1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910506397903321

Autore

Dall'Agata Gianguido

Titolo

Supergravity : From First Principles to Modern Applications / / by Gianguido Dall'Agata, Marco Zagermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-662-63980-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 1616-6361 ; ; 991

Disciplina

530.142

Soggetti

Gravitation

Elementary particles (Physics)

Quantum field theory

Mathematical physics

Mathematics

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Applications of Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- From Global to Local SUSY -- Gravity and spinors -- D=4 N=1 SUGRA -- Matter couplings in global SUSY -- Matter couplings in SUGRA -- SUGRA phenomenology -- Extended supergravities -- Gauged supergravity -- SUGRA in any dimension.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about supergravity, which combines the principles of general relativity and local gauge invariance with the idea of supersymmetries between bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. The authors give a thorough and pedagogical introduction to the subject suitable for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students in theoretical high energy physics or mathematical physics. Interested researchers working in these or related areas are also addressed. The level of the presentation assumes a working knowledge of general relativity and basic notions of differential geometry as well as some familiarity with global supersymmetry in relativistic field



theories. Bypassing curved superspace and other more technical approaches, the book starts from the simple idea of supersymmetry as a local gauge symmetry and derives the mathematical and physical properties of supergravity in a direct and “minimalistic” way, using a combination of explicit computations and geometrical reasoning. Key topics include spinors in curved spacetime, pure supergravity with and without a cosmological constant, matter couplings in global and local supersymmetry, phenomenological and cosmological implications, extended supergravity, gauged supergravity and supergravity in higher spacetime dimensions.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958198803321

Autore

Kennedy-Day Kiki

Titolo

Books of definition in Islamic philosophy : the limits of words / / Kiki Kennedy-Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

1-135-78731-X

0-7007-1723-4

1-280-07043-9

0-203-22137-0

Descrizione fisica

xi, 200 pages : map

Disciplina

181/.07

Soggetti

Islamic philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is a definition -- Al-Kindi: the first arabic book of definitions -- Al-Farabi: the emergence of Arabicized Greek logic -- Ibn Sina: the second book of definitions -- Comparison of vocabulary -- The socio-political milieu of Ibn Sina -- Translation: the book of definitions -- Commentary

Sommario/riassunto

"[This book] presents a framework for incorporating an Islamic and historically contextualised philosophy into a continuum of world philosophers."--Preface, p. i.