000			01653 a2200193 4500
003			OSt
020			_a9789811210518
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a530.1423 _bT692s
100			_aTraubenberg, Michel Rausch de
245			_aA supergravity primer _bfrom geometrical principles to the final lagrangian _cMichel Rausch de Traubenberg and Mauricio Valenzuela
260			_bWorld Scientific _c2020 _aChennai
300			_axvi, 362p
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aSupergravity
700			_aValenzuela, Mauricio
942			_cBK
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