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Record Nr.

UNISA996466693203316

Autore

Bellucci S (Stefano), <1957->

Titolo

Supersymmetric mechanics - vol. 2 : the attractor mechanism and space time singularities / / Alessio Marrani, Sergio Ferrara, Stefano Bellucci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, United States : , : Springer, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-280-62735-2

9786610627356

3-540-34157-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 701

Disciplina

530.1423

Soggetti

Supersymmetry

Supergravity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This is the first volume in a series of books on the general theme of Supersymmetric Mechanics, which are based on lectures and discussions held in 2005 and 2006 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati"--Preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Black Holes and Supergravity -- Attractors and Entropy -- Attractor Mechanism in N = 2, d = 4 Maxwell—Einstein Supergravity -- Black Holes and Critical Points in Moduli Space -- Black Hole Thermodynamics and Geometry -- N > 2-extended Supergravity, U-duality and the Orbits of Exceptional Lie Groups -- Microscopic Description. The Calabi–Yau Black Holes -- Macroscopic Description. Higher Derivative Terms and Black Hole Entropy -- Further Developments.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the second volume in a series of books on the general theme of Supersymmetric Mechanics; the series is based on lectures and discussions held in 2005 and 2006 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati. The first volume appears as Lect. Notes Physics, Vol. 698 "Supersymmetric Mechanics , Vol .1: Supersymmetry, Noncommutativity and Matrix Models" (2006) ISBN: 3-540-33313-4. The present extensive lecture supplies a pedagogical introduction, at the non-



expert level, to the attractor mechanism in space-time singularities. In such a framework, supersymmetry seems to be related to dynamical systems with fixed points, describing the equilibrium state and the stability features of the thermodynamics of black holes. After a qualitative overview, explicit examples realizing the attractor mechanism are treated at some length; they include relevant cases of asymptotically flat, maximal and non-maximal, extended supergravities in 4 and 5 dimensions. A number of recent advances along various directions of research on the attractor mechanism are also given.