Table of Contents

Part I. How Geometry Arises: 1. Geometrical structures in (Q)FT; 2. Extended supersymmetry in diverse dimensions; Part II. Geometry and Extended Susy: 3. Parallel structures and holonomy; 4. Susy/sugra Lagrangians and U-duality; 5. σ-models and symmetric spaces; 6. Killing spinors and rigid susy in curved spaces; 7. Parallel structures and isometries; 8. Gauging and potential terms; Part III. Special Geometries: 9. Kähler and Hodge manifolds; 10. N=1 supergravity in 4D; 11. Flag manifolds. Variations of Hodge structures; 12. Four-dimensional N=2 supergravity.

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Adopting an elegant geometrical approach, this advanced pedagogical text describes intuitive methods for understanding the subtle logic of supersymmetry.

About the Author

Sergio Cecotti is an Associate Professor at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste.