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gravity contents

gravity, supergravity

Formalism

• Poincare Lie algebra

  • super Poincare Lie algebra, supergravity Lie 3-algebra, supergravity Lie 6-algebra

• differential geometry

  • pseudo-Riemannian manifold

  • spacetime, smooth Lorentzian manifold

Definition

• Einstein-Hilbert action, Einstein's equations, general relativity

  • first-order formulation of gravity, D'Auria-Fre formulation of supergravity

  • gravity as a BF-theory, Plebanski formulation of gravity, teleparallel gravity

Spacetime configurations

• spacetime

• Minkowski spacetime

• black hole spacetime

  • Schwarzschild spacetime

  • Kerr spacetime

Properties

• Bekenstein-Hawking entropy

• generalized second law of thermodynamics

Models

• standard model of cosmology

• 11-dimensional supergravity

• Kaluza-Klein mechanism

Quantum theory

• quantum gravity

  • graviton, gravitino

  • string theory

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