| Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory Contributor(s): Bailin, D. (Author), Love, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0750304928 ISBN-13: 9780750304924 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: This book focuses on the cosmological implications of the gauge theories of particle physics and of string theory. It first examines relics of early phase transitions, more generic relics (baryons, neutrinos, axions), and supersymmetric particles (neutralinos and gravitinos). The author next studies supersymmetric theory, supergravity theory, and the constraints on the underlying field theory of the universe's inflationary era. The book concludes with a discussion of black hole solutions of the supergravity theory that approximates string theory at low energies and the insight that string theory affords into the microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Cosmology - Science | Waves & Wave Mechanics - Science | Physics - Astrophysics |
| Dewey: 530.143 |
| LCCN: 2005274253 |
| Series: Graduate Student Series in Physics |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.16" W x 9.26" (1.23 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory focuses on the cosmological implications of the gauge theories of particle physics and of string theory. The book first examines the universe's series of phase transitions in which the successive gauge symmetries of the higher-temperature phase were spontaneously broken after the big bang, discussing relics of these phase transitions, more generic relics (baryons, neutrinos, axions), and supersymmetric particles (neutralinos and gravitinos). The author next studies supersymmetric theory, supergravity theory, and the constraints on the underlying field theory of the universe's inflationary era. The book concludes with a discussion of black hole solutions of the supergravity theory that approximates string theory at low energies and the insight that string theory affords into the microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory provides a modern introduction to these important problems from a particle physicist's perspective. It is intended as an introductory textbook for a first course on the subject at a graduate level. |
