Browsing Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy by Subject "Higher dimensions"
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Aspects of higher dimensional Einstein theory and M-theory
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2012-10-09)This thesis contains two main themes. The first is Einstein's theory of general relativity in higher dimensions, while the second is M-theory. The first part of the thesis concerns the use of classification techniques ...
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New approaches to higher-dimensional general relativity
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2011-06-07)This thesis considers various aspects of general relativity in more than four spacetime dimensions. Firstly, I review the generalization to higher dimensions of the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor and the ...