Download or read book Supergravity And Superstrings: A Geometric Perspective (In 3 Volumes) written by Leonardo Castellani and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-06-11 with total page 2220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.