Basic Concepts of String Theory / / by Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst, Stefan Theisen |
Autore | Blumenhagen Ralph |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (786 p.) |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | Theoretical and Mathematical Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Quantum field theory
String models Mathematical physics Physics Quantum theory Particles (Nuclear physics) Quantum Field Theories, String Theory Mathematical Physics Mathematical Methods in Physics Quantum Physics Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory |
ISBN | 3-642-29497-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Classical Bosonic String -- The Quantized Bosonic String -- Introduction to Conformal Field Theory -- Parametrization Ghosts and BRST Quantization -- String Perturbation Theory and One-Loop Amplitudes -- The Classical Fermionic String -- The Quantized Fermionic String -- Superstrings -- Toroidal Compactifications – 10-Dimensional Heterotic String -- Conformal Field Theory II: Lattices and Kac-Moody Algebras -- Conformal Field Theory III: Superconformal Field Theory -- Covariant Vertex Operators, BRST and Covariant Lattices -- String Compactifications -- CFTs for Type II and Heterotic String Vacua -- String Scattering Amplitudes and Low Energy Effective Field Theory -- Compactifications of the Type II Superstring With D-branes and Fluxes -- String Dualities and M-theory. |
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Blumenhagen Ralph | ||
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Basic concepts of string theory / Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lèust, Stefan Theisen |
Autore | Blumenhagen, Ralph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Heidelberg ; New York : Springer Verlagc2013 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 782 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Lèust, Dieterauthor
Theisen, Stefanauthor |
Collana | Theoretical and mathematical physics |
Soggetto topico | String models |
ISBN | 9783642294969 |
Classificazione |
LC QC794.6.S85
53.3.11 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002103279707536 |
Blumenhagen, Ralph | ||
Heidelberg ; New York : Springer Verlagc2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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A Brief History of String Theory : From Dual Models to M-Theory / / by Dean Rickles |
Autore | Rickles Dean |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | The Frontiers Collection |
Soggetto topico |
Quantum field theory
String theory Philosophy and science Physics Elementary particles (Physics) Gravitation Quantum Field Theories, String Theory Philosophy of Science History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory |
ISBN | 3-642-45128-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | History and Mythology -- Part I: The (Very) Early Years: 1959-1973 -- Particle Physics in the Sixties -- The Veneziano Model -- The Hadronic String -- Supersymmetric Strings and Field Theoretic Limits -- Part II: A Decade of Darkness: 1974-1984 -- An Early Demise? Theoretical Exaptation in String Theory -- Turning Point(s) -- Part III: String Theory Becomes Super: 1985-1995 -- Superstring Theory and the Real World -- A 'Second Superstring Revolution' and the Future of String Theory. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910739429403321 |
Rickles Dean | ||
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cosmology and String Theory / / by Horaţiu Năstase |
Autore | Năstase Horaţiu |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (459 pages) |
Disciplina |
523.1
539.7258 |
Collana | Fundamental Theories of Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Quantum field theory
String models Cosmology Gravitation Quantum Field Theories, String Theory Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory |
ISBN | 3-030-15077-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The expanding Universe and the Big Bang -- Relativistic theory -- The propagation of light and measurements of distance, luminosity, and mass -- Evidence for Dark Matter and the ACDM model -- The Early Universe and its thermal history -- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Recombination -- The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) anisotropy -- Problems to be solved by inflation and how they are solved in inflationary models -- Slow-roll inflation -- Reheating and baryogenesis -- Fluctuations in inflation and matching with experimental data -- Extra dimensions and Kaluza-Klein -- Electromagnetism and gravity in various dimensions. Consistent truncation -- N = 1 supergravity in 4 dimensions -- KK compactification of supergravity models -- The relativistic point particle -- Relativistic strings -- Light-cone gauge strings and quantization -- D-branes and gauge fields -- Electromagnetic fields on D-branes and N = 4 SYM. T-duality of closed strings -- T-duality of open strings. M-theory and the duality web -- String theory and particle physics -- Holography and the AdS/CFT correspondence -- Problems of string inflation -- Problems of the supergravity approximation to string inflation -- Brane- (antibrane) inflation -- Braneworld cosmology and the Israel junction conditions -- The KKLT scenario for de Sitter backgrounds in string theory -- The KKLMMT scenario for inflation and generalizations -- The ekpyrotic scenario -- The cyclic and new ekpyrotic scenarios -- String gas cosmology: basics and Brandenberger-Vafa scenario -- String gas and brane gas developments -- Chameleon scalars and string theory -- Axion inflation and axion monodromy from string theory -- Fuzzy dark matter from string theory -- Holographic cosmology. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910337876303321 |
Năstase Horaţiu | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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D-branes / / Clifford V. Johnson [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Johnson Clifford V (Clifford Victor), <1968-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiii, 548 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics |
Soggetto topico |
D-branes
Superstring theories |
ISBN | 1-009-40137-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910734331503321 |
Johnson Clifford V (Clifford Victor), <1968-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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L' universo elegante : superstringhe, dimensioni nascoste e la ricerca della teoria ultima / Brian Greene ; a cura di Claudio Bartocci |
Autore | GREENE, Brian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Torino : G. Einaudi, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | XII, 395 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | Saggi |
Soggetto topico | Teoria delle superstringhe |
ISBN | 88-06-15523-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISA-990002810790203316 |
GREENE, Brian | ||
Torino : G. Einaudi, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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L'universo elegante : superstringhe, dimensioni nascoste e la ricerca della teoria ultima / Brian Greene ; a cura di Claudio Bartocci |
Autore | Greene, Brian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Torino, : G. Einaudi, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | XII, 395 p. : ill. ; 22 cm |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | Saggi |
Soggetto non controllato | Divulgazione scientifica |
ISBN | 88-06-15523-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910425660503321 |
Greene, Brian | ||
Torino, : G. Einaudi, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Naturalness, string landscape and multiverse a modern introduction with exercises / / Arthur Hebecker |
Autore | Hebecker Arthur |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | Lecture notes in physics |
Soggetto topico |
String models
Particles (Nuclear physics) |
ISBN | 3-030-65151-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 The Standard Model and Its Hierarchy Problem(s) -- 1.1 Standard Model-The Basic Structure -- 1.2 Standard Model-Parameter Count -- 1.3 Effective Field Theories-Cutoff Perspective -- 1.4 Effective Field Theories-QFTUV vs. QFTIR -- 1.5 The Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory -- 1.6 The Electroweak Hierarchy Problem -- 1.7 Fine-tuning -- 1.8 Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem -- 1.9 Problems -- 1.9.1 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking -- 1.9.2 The Standard Model Is Anomaly Free -- 1.9.3 The Standard Model and SU(5) -- 1.9.4 Weyl Spinors -- 1.9.5 Covariant Expression for the 1-Loop Vacuum Energy -- 2 Supersymmetry and Supergravity -- 2.1 SUSY Algebra and Superspace -- 2.2 Superfields -- 2.3 Chiral Superfields -- 2.4 SUSY-Invariant Lagrangians -- 2.5 Wess-Zumino-Type Models -- 2.6 Real Superfields -- 2.7 SUSY Breaking -- 2.8 Supersymmetrising the Standard Model -- 2.9 Supersymmetric and SUSY Breaking Masses and Non-renormalisation -- 2.10 The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) -- 2.11 Supergravity: Superspace Approach -- 2.12 Supergravity: Component Approach -- 2.13 Problems -- 2.13.1 Simple Manipulations Within the Superspace Approach -- 2.13.2 Deriving Component Actions -- 2.13.3 Fierz Identities for Weyl Spinors -- 2.13.4 SUSY in Components -- 2.13.5 Gauge Coupling Unification -- 2.13.6 Graviton Spin (Helicity) -- 3 String Theory: Bosonic String -- 3.1 Strings: Basic Ideas -- 3.2 Symmetries, Equations of Motion, Gauge Choice -- 3.3 Open String -- 3.4 Quantisation -- 3.5 Explicit Construction of Physical States: Open String -- 3.6 Explicit Construction of Physical States: Closed String -- 3.7 The 26d Action -- 3.8 Problems -- 3.8.1 Point Particle Action -- 3.8.2 Commutation Relations of Oscillator Modes -- 3.8.3 Trace of the Energy-Momentum Tensor.
3.8.4 Virasoro Algebra -- 3.8.5 Normal Ordering Constant as Casimir Energy -- 3.8.6 Kalb-Ramond Field from the Worldsheet Perspective -- 4 String Theory: Interactions and Superstring -- 4.1 State-Operator Correspondence -- 4.2 Scattering Amplitudes -- 4.3 Worldsheet Supersymmetry -- 4.4 Worldsheet Supergravity -- 4.5 Quantisation of the Superstring -- 4.6 GSO or Gliozzi-Scherk-Olive Projection -- 4.7 Consistent Type II Superstring Theories -- 4.8 Other 10d Theories -- 4.9 Problems -- 4.9.1 Explicit State-Operator Mapping in the Free Case -- 4.9.2 Euler Number and Genus of Riemann Surfaces -- 4.9.3 Dilaton vs. String Coupling -- 4.9.4 Elementary Exercises with 2d Spinors -- 4.9.5 SUSY Algebra in 2d -- 5 10d Actions and Compactification -- 5.1 10d Supergravities and Type IIB as an Example -- 5.2 Kaluza-Klein Compactification -- 5.3 Towards Calabi-Yau Manifolds -- 5.4 Homology and Cohomology -- 5.5 Calabi-Yau Moduli Spaces -- 5.6 Explicit Parameterisation of Calabi-Yau Moduli Spaces -- 5.7 An Aside on String Model Building: From Heterotic Compactifications to Orientifold Models with Branes and F-Theory -- 5.8 Problems -- 5.8.1 Dimensional Reduction -- 5.8.2 SO(2n) vs. U(n) -- 5.8.3 Complex Projective Spaces -- 6 The Flux Landscape -- 6.1 Compact Geometries with p-Form Fluxes -- 6.2 Bousso-Polchinski Model -- 6.3 The Type IIB Flux Landscape (GKP) -- 6.4 Kahler Modulus Stabilisation and SUSY Breaking (KKLT) -- 6.5 The Anti-D3-Brane Uplift of KKLT -- 6.6 The Large Volume Scenario -- 6.7 Vacuum Statistics and the Tuning of the Cosmological Constant -- 6.8 Higgs Mass and Other Landscape-Related Issues -- 6.9 Problems -- 6.9.1 No-Scale Kahler Potentials and KKLT -- 6.9.2 The LVS Scalar Potential and Stabilisation Mechanism -- 7 Eternal Inflation and the Measure Problem -- 7.1 From Slow-Roll Inflation to the Eternal Regime. 7.2 Eternal Inflation in the Landscape -- 7.3 Tunnelling Transitions in Quantum Mechanics -- 7.4 Tunnelling Transitions in Field Theory -- 7.5 Tunnelling in Gravitational Theories -- 7.6 Our Universe in the Eternally Inflating Landscape -- 7.7 Making Statistical Predictions and the Measure Problem -- 7.8 Proposed Measures -- 7.9 Predictions from First Principles? -- 7.10 Problems -- 7.10.1 Coleman-De Luccia Tunnelling -- 8 Concluding Remarks and Some Alternative Perspectives -- 8.1 Low-Scale SUSY Versus Technicolor -- 8.2 From the `Little Higgs' to Large or Warped Extra Dimensions -- 8.3 Cosmological Selection and the Relaxion -- 8.4 The Swampland Program -- 8.5 The Swampland and de Sitter -- 8.6 More Direct Approaches to Quantum Gravity -- 8.7 Asymptotic Safety and the Hierarchy Problem -- 9 Summary -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910485049803321 |
Hebecker Arthur | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Naturalness, string landscape and multiverse a modern introduction with exercises / / Arthur Hebecker |
Autore | Hebecker Arthur |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | Lecture notes in physics |
Soggetto topico |
String models
Particles (Nuclear physics) |
ISBN | 3-030-65151-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 The Standard Model and Its Hierarchy Problem(s) -- 1.1 Standard Model-The Basic Structure -- 1.2 Standard Model-Parameter Count -- 1.3 Effective Field Theories-Cutoff Perspective -- 1.4 Effective Field Theories-QFTUV vs. QFTIR -- 1.5 The Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory -- 1.6 The Electroweak Hierarchy Problem -- 1.7 Fine-tuning -- 1.8 Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem -- 1.9 Problems -- 1.9.1 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking -- 1.9.2 The Standard Model Is Anomaly Free -- 1.9.3 The Standard Model and SU(5) -- 1.9.4 Weyl Spinors -- 1.9.5 Covariant Expression for the 1-Loop Vacuum Energy -- 2 Supersymmetry and Supergravity -- 2.1 SUSY Algebra and Superspace -- 2.2 Superfields -- 2.3 Chiral Superfields -- 2.4 SUSY-Invariant Lagrangians -- 2.5 Wess-Zumino-Type Models -- 2.6 Real Superfields -- 2.7 SUSY Breaking -- 2.8 Supersymmetrising the Standard Model -- 2.9 Supersymmetric and SUSY Breaking Masses and Non-renormalisation -- 2.10 The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) -- 2.11 Supergravity: Superspace Approach -- 2.12 Supergravity: Component Approach -- 2.13 Problems -- 2.13.1 Simple Manipulations Within the Superspace Approach -- 2.13.2 Deriving Component Actions -- 2.13.3 Fierz Identities for Weyl Spinors -- 2.13.4 SUSY in Components -- 2.13.5 Gauge Coupling Unification -- 2.13.6 Graviton Spin (Helicity) -- 3 String Theory: Bosonic String -- 3.1 Strings: Basic Ideas -- 3.2 Symmetries, Equations of Motion, Gauge Choice -- 3.3 Open String -- 3.4 Quantisation -- 3.5 Explicit Construction of Physical States: Open String -- 3.6 Explicit Construction of Physical States: Closed String -- 3.7 The 26d Action -- 3.8 Problems -- 3.8.1 Point Particle Action -- 3.8.2 Commutation Relations of Oscillator Modes -- 3.8.3 Trace of the Energy-Momentum Tensor.
3.8.4 Virasoro Algebra -- 3.8.5 Normal Ordering Constant as Casimir Energy -- 3.8.6 Kalb-Ramond Field from the Worldsheet Perspective -- 4 String Theory: Interactions and Superstring -- 4.1 State-Operator Correspondence -- 4.2 Scattering Amplitudes -- 4.3 Worldsheet Supersymmetry -- 4.4 Worldsheet Supergravity -- 4.5 Quantisation of the Superstring -- 4.6 GSO or Gliozzi-Scherk-Olive Projection -- 4.7 Consistent Type II Superstring Theories -- 4.8 Other 10d Theories -- 4.9 Problems -- 4.9.1 Explicit State-Operator Mapping in the Free Case -- 4.9.2 Euler Number and Genus of Riemann Surfaces -- 4.9.3 Dilaton vs. String Coupling -- 4.9.4 Elementary Exercises with 2d Spinors -- 4.9.5 SUSY Algebra in 2d -- 5 10d Actions and Compactification -- 5.1 10d Supergravities and Type IIB as an Example -- 5.2 Kaluza-Klein Compactification -- 5.3 Towards Calabi-Yau Manifolds -- 5.4 Homology and Cohomology -- 5.5 Calabi-Yau Moduli Spaces -- 5.6 Explicit Parameterisation of Calabi-Yau Moduli Spaces -- 5.7 An Aside on String Model Building: From Heterotic Compactifications to Orientifold Models with Branes and F-Theory -- 5.8 Problems -- 5.8.1 Dimensional Reduction -- 5.8.2 SO(2n) vs. U(n) -- 5.8.3 Complex Projective Spaces -- 6 The Flux Landscape -- 6.1 Compact Geometries with p-Form Fluxes -- 6.2 Bousso-Polchinski Model -- 6.3 The Type IIB Flux Landscape (GKP) -- 6.4 Kahler Modulus Stabilisation and SUSY Breaking (KKLT) -- 6.5 The Anti-D3-Brane Uplift of KKLT -- 6.6 The Large Volume Scenario -- 6.7 Vacuum Statistics and the Tuning of the Cosmological Constant -- 6.8 Higgs Mass and Other Landscape-Related Issues -- 6.9 Problems -- 6.9.1 No-Scale Kahler Potentials and KKLT -- 6.9.2 The LVS Scalar Potential and Stabilisation Mechanism -- 7 Eternal Inflation and the Measure Problem -- 7.1 From Slow-Roll Inflation to the Eternal Regime. 7.2 Eternal Inflation in the Landscape -- 7.3 Tunnelling Transitions in Quantum Mechanics -- 7.4 Tunnelling Transitions in Field Theory -- 7.5 Tunnelling in Gravitational Theories -- 7.6 Our Universe in the Eternally Inflating Landscape -- 7.7 Making Statistical Predictions and the Measure Problem -- 7.8 Proposed Measures -- 7.9 Predictions from First Principles? -- 7.10 Problems -- 7.10.1 Coleman-De Luccia Tunnelling -- 8 Concluding Remarks and Some Alternative Perspectives -- 8.1 Low-Scale SUSY Versus Technicolor -- 8.2 From the `Little Higgs' to Large or Warped Extra Dimensions -- 8.3 Cosmological Selection and the Relaxion -- 8.4 The Swampland Program -- 8.5 The Swampland and de Sitter -- 8.6 More Direct Approaches to Quantum Gravity -- 8.7 Asymptotic Safety and the Hierarchy Problem -- 9 Summary -- References -- Index. |
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Hebecker Arthur | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A new generation of cosmic superstring simulations / / José Ricardo C. C. C. Correira |
Autore | Correira José Ricardo C. C. C. |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (202 pages) |
Disciplina | 539.7258 |
Collana | Springer theses |
Soggetto topico | Superstring theories |
ISBN |
9783031202292
9783031202285 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A brief description of Cosmology -- Topological Defects -- Supercomputing with Graphics Processing Units -- Calibration of Extended VOS models -- Strings in U(1)_L x U(1)_L simulations -- A New Generation of String Simulations. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910644264003321 |
Correira José Ricardo C. C. C. | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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