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Gravity and Strings TOMÁS ORTÍN S
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To Marimar, Diego, and Tomás, the
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xvi Contents Appendix A Lie groups,
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Preface String theory has lived for
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Part I Introduction to gravity and
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4 Differential geometry function 1
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2 Noether’s theorems In the next
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30 Noether’s theorems First, obse
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40 Noether’s theorems The Rosenfe
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42 Noether’s theorems is invarian
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44 Noether’s theorems In this way
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4.6 Teleparallelism 145 the Riemann
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8 The Reissner-Nordström black hol
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20 String black holes in four and f
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Appendix A Lie groups, symmetric sp
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Gamma matrices and spinors 613 wher
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Connections and curvature component
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Connections and curvature component
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The harmonic operator on R 3 × S 1
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isotropic, 198, 216, 232, 234, 265,
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Noether method, 78 first-order form
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integrability equation in N = 2, d
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extended, 121, 150, 160-163, 379, 3