Supergravity Primer, A: From Geometrical Principles To The Final Lagrangian

Supergravity Primer, A: From Geometrical Principles To The Final Lagrangian
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 379
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ISBN-10 : 9789811210532
ISBN-13 : 9811210535
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Book Synopsis Supergravity Primer, A: From Geometrical Principles To The Final Lagrangian by : Michel Rausch De Traubenberg

Download or read book Supergravity Primer, A: From Geometrical Principles To The Final Lagrangian written by Michel Rausch De Traubenberg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to a pedagogical introduction to supergravity from a practical perspective. As a particular feature of the book, the authors provide explicit details, which makes the computations easier to follow for the interested reader. Each chapter has summary tables, which contain the main results and, in addition, we have collected important or additional material in the appendix.In the first part of the book, the N=1 supergravity Lagrangian in four spacetime dimensions is derived. Closely following the reference of Wess and Bagger, we use the superspace approach. All steps, from the geometric principles of curved superspace to the field redefinition necessary to obtain a correctly normalised Lagrangian, are carefully analysed. Comparisons with other methods, such as conformal supergravity, are also given.In the second part of the book, we address more phenomenological aspects of supergravity such as supersymmetry breaking, no-scale supergravity, super-Higgs mechanism, etc. Finally, the relationship between supergravity and particle physics, and cosmology are analysed.


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