Overview
- Provides the first self-contained introduction to the field for non-experts, accessible to masters and Ph.D. students starting the subject
- Helpful for researchers working in high energy physics who want to gain a solid background in the mathematical tools they use
- Collects recent results on nearly Kähler geometry in signature, which will be of interest to mathematicians who are working in this direction and/or who want to obtain an overview of the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2201)
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Developing and providing an overview of recent results on nearly Kähler geometry on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, this monograph emphasizes the differences with the classical Riemannian geometry setting. The focal objects of the text are related to special holonomy and Killing spinors and have applications in high energy physics, such as supergravity and string theory. Before starting into the field, a self-contained introduction to the subject is given, aimed at students with a solid background in differential geometry. The book will therefore be accessible to masters and Ph.D. students who are beginning work on nearly Kähler geometry in pseudo-Riemannian signature, and also to non-experts interested in gaining an overview of the subject. Moreover, a number of results and techniques are provided which will be helpful for differential geometers as well as for high energy physicists interested in the mathematical background of the geometric objects they need.
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Book Title: Nearly Pseudo-Kähler Manifolds and Related Special Holonomies
Authors: Lars Schäfer
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65807-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65806-3Published: 15 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65807-0Published: 14 September 2017
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 183
Topics: Differential Geometry