Kaluza-Klein theories

November 8 - November 17

Institut Henri Poincare

Chris Pope (College Station/IHP)

COMING SOON

In the meantime you can look at the "draft" version IHP Lecture notes 36 at

faculty.physics.tamu.edu/pope/ihplec.ps

or

faculty.physics.tamu.edu/pope/ihplec.pdf

Part 1 KALUZA-KLEIN REDUCTION ON A CIRCLE

• Reduction of gravity on S^1

• Reduction of matter fields

• Global symmetries

• Supersymmetry

Part 2 KALUZA-KLEIN REDUCTION ON A TORUS

• General T^n reduction

• Global symmetry groups

• Reduction of supergravities

• Enhanced global symmetry groups

• Exceptional groups

Part 3 KALUZA-KLEIN SPHERE REDUCTION AND GAUGED SUPERGRAVITIES

• Linearized analysis and zero-mode spectrum

• Killing spinors

• Consistency of reductions on curved spaces

• Special features of sphere reductions

• Detailed examples for S^4, S^5 and S^7 reductions