Introduction to Supergravity

This book is a pedagogical introduction to supergravity, a gravitational field theory that includes supersymmetry (symmetry between bosons and fermions) and is a generalization of Einstein's general relativity. Supergravity provides a low-energy effective theory of superstring theory, which has...

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Main Author: Tanii, Yoshiaki. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, 1
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54828-7