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1 Page numbers in italic are those on which the definition or a very or four-dimensional, etc. AdSj, see anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime /?-brane (a\-a'i) model for intersecting branes, action, 570 a-model, action, 574 't Hooft, 206 Ansatz for periodic SU(2) instantons, 317 for the BPS monopole, 277 Ansatz for SU(2) instantons, 274 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, see solution, 't Hooft-Polyakov Abbott-Deser approach, 106, 111, 175, , 180, 372, 394 compared with Landau-Lifshitz energy-momentum pseudotensor, see Landau-Lifshitz energy-momentum pseudotensor action, 26 /?-brane {a\-ai) model, see /?-brane, {a\-ai) model /?-brane a model, see /?-brane, a-model /?-brane with variable tension, 502 Born-Infeld (BI), see Born-Infeld Einstein-Hilbert, see Einstein-Hilbert action Nambu-Goto (NG), see Nambu-Goto (NG) Polyakov-type, see Polyakov-type Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz (RNS) model, see Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz spinning particle, see Poincare, N = l,d = 1 supergravity supergravity theories, see supergravity theories superparticle (Green-Schwarz), see Green-Schwarz ADM mass, 176,776, 189 of composite BH solutions, see solution, composite 4dBHs of Reissner-Nordstrom BH, see solution, RN of Schwarzschild's BH, see solution, Schwarzschild AdS-CFT correspondence, 399, 536, 537, 540, 570, 573 Aharonov-Bohm phase, 254 Aichelburg, see solution, Aichelburg-Sexl shock wave angular-momentum, 268 angular-momentum tensor, 41 orbital, 34 spin, 34 anholonomy coefficients, see Ricci, rotation coefficients anti-de Sitter (AdS), see de Sitter (anti-) anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, see solution, AdS Arnowitt, see ADM mass ic discussion of the subject can be found. 4d means four dimensions Ashtekar variables, 138 asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) solutions, 272 Atiyah, see solution, Atiyah-Hitchin autoparallel curve, 7, 13 equation, 7 axidilaton, 359 axion, 217, 339, 349, 359, 360, 362, 363, 478, 480, 542 axion-dilaton gravity, and S duality, 360 as a truncation of N = 4, d = 4 supergravity, 361 axitor, 146 Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) BH, see solution, BTZ Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, 187 and horizon area, see horizon, area and the Euler characteristic, 245 density of BH microstates, 207 Bel-Robinson tensor, 171 Belavin, see solution, BPST instanton Belinfante tensor, 34, 35, 39, 40, 58, 59, 68, 80, 85, 130, 133 for a Dirac spinor, 37 for a spin-2 field, 82 for a vector field, 35 Bertotti, see solution, Robinson-Bertotti (RB) BH,see black hole (BH) Bianchi Bianchi IX gravitational instantons Eguchi-Hanson solution, see solution, Eguchi-Hanson Kaluza-Klein monopole, see solution, Kaluza-Klein Taub-bolt solution, see solution, Taub-bolt clasification of 3d real Lie algebras, 602 Bianchi identities, 109, 217 and gauge identities, 30, 39, 58, 59, 66, 102, 111, 114, 120, 129, 136, 227 Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian, 66 and Poincare dualization of the KR field, 480 and the dual 6-form potential of N = \,d = 11 supergravity, 452 contracted, 12, 13, 101, 131, 174, 214, 220, 351 as a gauge identity, 102, 119, 120 for the background metric, 177 for (p + 2)-form field strengths, 506, 514 for d-forni field strengths, 343 for curvature and torsion, 8, 135, 158, 273, 602 for metric-compatible connections, 12 for metric-compatible torsion-free connections, 13 for embedding coordinates, 427,

2 672 Bianchi identities (cont.) for Maxwell's field strength, 166, 167, 217, 220, 221, 225, 227, 228, 257, 383 and electric-magnetic duality, 245, 248 and electric-magnetic duality in dilaton a-model, 358 and existence of a potential, 220 and magnetic sources, 249 and Poincare duality, 248 and S duality in 4d KK theory, 311 and S duality in dilaton-axion gravity, 360, 361 and the Chern-Simons (CS) 3-form, 256 in dilaton a-model, 350, 351 for RR field strengths, 458^460, 464, 487, 492 and the mass parameter of Romans' theory, 465 for the self-dual RR 5-form, 486 for Yang-Mills fields, 273, 276, 597 in massive electrodynamics, 258 Big-Bang singularities, 195 Birkhoff's theorem, 189, 190, 228 black /?-branes, see solution, Schwarzschild /?-branes black hole, 194 black hole (BH) axion-dilaton, see solution, axion-dilaton Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ), see solution, BTZ black hole dilaton, see solution, dilaton entropy problem, 797, information problem, 797, Kerr, see solution, Kerr Kerr-Newman, see solution, Kerr-Newman Reissner-Nordstrom (RN), see solution, Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) Schwarzschild, see solution, Schwarzschild string, SWIP, see solution, SWIP Bogomol'nyi (or BPS) bound, 509, 556 and equilibrium of forces, 397, 424 and supersymmetry, 373, in N = 1, d = 4 supergravity, 399 in N = 2, d = 4 supergravity, 400 in N = 4, d = 4 supergravity, 400 in extended supergravities, 396 and the positivity of mass, 779, 398 and the Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) solution, 231 for the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, 276 in N = 8, d = 8 supergravity, 575 of string/m-theory objects, 550 saturated (Bogomol'nyi identity), 310 Bogomol'nyi equation for SU(2) monopoles 276 Bogomornyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit of the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, 276, 277, 373 Bohm, see Aharonov-Bohm phase Boltzmann's constant, 204 Bonnet, see Gauss-Bonnet theorem Bonnor, 196, 267 magnetic-dipole solution, see solution, Bonnor Born-Infeld (BI) action, 503 vector field, 435, 435, 443, 501, 564, 567 dual, 549, 564 solitons (Blons), 549, 550, 554, 564, 566, 570 Boulware, 59, 78 bound Bogomol'nyi bound, see Bogomol'nyi (or BPS) bound BPS bound, see Bogomol'nyi (or BPS) bound supersymmetry bound, see Bogomol'nyi (or BPS) bound Boyer, 198 Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, see coordinates, Boyer-Lindquist BPS, see Bogomornyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) BPS states, 370, , 408 and the superalgebra, 395 annihilated by supercharges, 394 contribution to extreme BH entropy, 589 D/?-branes and O^-planes, 424 BPST instanton, see solution, BPST instanton Brans, see Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory Brill, 280 Brinkmann metrics, 282 connection and curvature, 647 BTZ, see Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) BH Buscher T duality, and breaking of supersymmetry, between Fl and W, 445 between JNW and Schwarzschild solutions, 216 in type-ii theories, 448, 485, 491, 493 between solutions, transformations, transformations of Killing spinors, 496, 562 transformations, 437, 438 transformations for Vielbeins, 439 Cahen-Wallach symmetric spacetimes, 283, 389 Cardy's formula, 578, 589 Cartan connection, 17, 20, 128, 132, 138 first criterion (solvability), 594 Maurer-Cartan, see Maurer-Cartan Riemann-Cartan spacetime, see Riemann-Cartan spacetime second criterion (semisimplicity), 594 Cartan-Sciama-Kibble (CSK) theory, 34, 39, 41, 113, Cauchy horizon, see horizon, Cauchy CFT, see conformal field theories Chan-Paton factors, 420, 423, 428 charge conjugation matrix, 615 Chazy, see solution, Chazy-Curzon Chern class first, and the Wu-Yang monopole, 255 second, and SU(2) Yang-Mills instanton, 273, 310 Chern-Simons 3-form, 132, 256, 598 in N = 1, d = 10 supergravity, 498 in KR field strength, 470 term, 432, 530 N = 1, d = 11 supergravity, 451 N = 1, d = 5 supergravity, 313 N = 2,d = 9 supergravity, 493 N = 2A± T, d = 10 supergravity, 423, 487 N = 2B± supergravity, 487 in supergravity field strengths, 437, 550, 569, 570 Romans' N = 2A,d = 10 supergravity, 464 Christoffel symbols, 10, 13, 20, 92, 126, 127, 210 and Weyl rescalings, 639 Clifford action, 377 algebra, 601, 611, 612, 613, 615, 616, 624, 626, 630, 631 compensator (//-), 606 Compton wavelength, 50, 115 compared with the Schwarzschild radius and Planck length, 116, 206 conformal field theories (CFTs), 573, 578, 589, 590 conformastationary, see metric, conformastationary connection affine, 6 Cartan, see Cartan, connection chiral, 367 metric-compatible, 10 spin, 78, 601 continuity equation, 29 coordinate basis, 3 coordinates adapted to an isometry, 21, 99 Boyer-Lindquist, 268, 366 Eddington-Finkelstein, see solution, Schwarzschild harmonic, 199

3 673 isotropic, 198, 216, 232, 234, 265, 271, Kruskal-Szekeres (KS), , 194, Schwarzschild, see Schwarzschild, coordinates spherical, 634 correspondence principle, 245, 577, 578, 589 cosmological constant, cotangent space, 3 Coulomb field, 200, 233 force, 218 covariant derivative of world-tensor densities, 6 of world tensors, 5 of Yang-Mills fields, see Yang-Mills, covariant derivative crosscaps, 412 CSK, see Cartan-Sciama-Kibble (CSK) theory curvature, see tensor, curvature curve, 7 Curzon, see solution, Chazy-Curzon D/?-brane solution, see solution, Dp D/?-branes defined, 420 D-instanton, see solution, D(-l) de Broglie wavelength, 52 De Donder gauge, 57, 65, 65, 87, 282 de Sitter (anti-) N =l,d = 4 superalgebra, 152 gauging, N=l,d = 4 supergravity, 151, , 377 action, 754,159 super symmetry transformations, 160,168 vacua, N = 2,d = 4 supergravity, 151, , 378, 382 action, 168 solutions, 400 vacua, N = 4, d = 5 (SO(6)-gauged) supergravity, 540, 563 N = 4,d = 1 (SO(5)-gauged) supergravity, 536 N = S,d = 4 (SO(8)-gauged) supergravity, 534 (gauged) supergravities from spontaneous compactification, 547 algebra, 143, 385 spinorial representations, connection, 167 group, 46, 115, 132, 142, 143, 150, 159 gauging of, 143 radius, 143 spacetime, 103, 104, 143, 159, 161, 179, 235, 286, 372 stability, 372 superalgebras, 563 supergroup, 150 Dehn twists, 336 Demiafiski Plebanski-Demiafiski solutions, see solution, Plebanski Deser, 45, 176 Abbott-Deser approach, see Abbott-Deser approach argument for GR's self-consistency, 44, 46, 59, 78, 85, Boulware-Deser paper, see Boulware diamond invariant of E7, 587, 588 Dicke, see Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory differential form, 3, 6, 23 dilaton a-model, , 515 and secondary hair, 216 equations of motion, 351 dilaton BHs, 574 dilaton field, 121, 149, 216, 218, 303, 307, 313, 472, 420, 426, , 439, 440, 445, 447, 453, , 464, 471, 477, 480, 498, 510, 515, 530, 537, 569, 571, 576, 580 and electric-magnetic duality, 516 and fundamental /?-brane frames, 510 and S duality, 490 and the string coupling constant, 425, 487 Buscher's T-duality transformation rule, 438 coupling to D-branes, 511 coupling to fundamental branes, 511 coupling to Kaluza-Klein (KK) branes, 512 coupling to solitonic branes, 511 coupling to the D/?-brane, 434 coupling to the string, 433 dimensional reduction on S, 436, 549 dimensional reduction on JP, 550 from N = l,d = ll supergravity, 457^458, 470, 475 Dirac conjugate, 18, 152, 468, 601, 615, 621 and Majorana spinors, 617 in arbitrary signature, 628 conjugation matrix, 601, 613, 615, 621 in arbitrary signature, 627 delta function, 69, 71, 234, 518, 519 equation, 415, 614, 617 conjugate, 615, 616 from superparticle action, 412, 413 magnetic monopole, , 276 and SU(2)/U(1) coset space, 608 and Hopf fibrations, 636 and Wu-Yang formulation, 255 equation, 249, 249, 272, 277, 328 no existence for gauge group R, 253 solution, 250, 252 magnetic monopoles absence in massive electrodynamics, 226 massive equation from superparticle action, 413 matrices, see gamma matrices quantization condition, 254, 254 and Aharonov-Bohm phase, 254 and the time periodicity of the Taub-NUT solution, 270 and Wu-Yang formulation, 255 for extended objects, 500 for extended objects, 508, 509, 520, 550 for extended objects and the Newton constant, 528, 529 in Kaluza-Klein (KK) theories, 306, 312, 329, 339 spinor, 612 and Wilson lines, 347 commuting in WNI technique, 181 energy-momentum tensor, 36, 37, 39 energy-momentum tensor coupled to gravity, 130, 131 energy-momentum tensor coupled to gravity in first-order formalism, Lorentz transformations, 614 reducible in even d, 616 string singularities and the wire singularities of the Taub-NUT solution, 270 string singularity, for extended objects, 508 Dirac-Schwinger-Zwanziger (DSZ) quantization condition, 214, 256 and S duality, 362 and S duality, 258 Dirichlet (D) boundary conditions, 411 divergence modified, 8 Dreibein, 14 DSZ, see Dirac-Schwinger-Zwanziger (DSZ) quantization condition Eckart-Schrodinger representation, 600 Eguchi, see solution, Eguchi-Hanson Einbein, 14 Einstein, 69, 73, 95, 99, 102 and the gravity energy-momentum tensor, 171 equation in axion-dilaton gravity, 361

4 674 Einstein (cont.) equations, 45, 46,101, 114, 118, 120, 121, 123, 174, 176, 180, 182, 190, 197, 200, 202, , 213, 238, 541 cosmological, 102, 104, 106, 109, 112 from string theory, 434 in CSK theory, 133,134, 138, 140 in dilaton a-model, 350, 351 in Einstein-Maxwell theory, 227 in Einstein-Maxwell theory (duality-invariant form), 246 in Kaluza-Klein (KK) theories, 302 in purely affine theory of gravity, 126 in supergravity theories, 156, 159, 165, 168 in the Einstein-scalar theory, 214 interpretation of solutions, 187 not solved at singular points, 200 ofngt, 124 vacuum, 92, 93, 96, 126, 188 with a Dirac spinor, 131 frame, 302, 304, 305, 313, 319, 342, 346, 357, 434, 447, 464, 471,478,482,514,540,555 manifest duality-invariance of the action, 303, 448, 466, 489, 490, 549 versus string frame, 530, 548 frame (modified), 304, 305, 319, 322, 328, 335, 487, 536, 537, 541, 576, 581, 585 and definition of mass, 305, 548, 583 versus string frame, 530, 548 gauge, 57 medium-strong form of the PEGI, 99 metric, 727, 490, 516, 549, 578 duality invariance, 586 metric (modified), 549 non-symmetric gravity theory, see non-symmetric gravity theory) scalar theories of gravity, 46 space, 547, 563, 637 teleparallelism theories of gravity, 145 tensor, 9, 12, 13, 40, 96, 101, 133, 138 cosmological, 104, 106, 177 for the Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) metric, 239 for the Schwarzschild metric, 202 transformation under Weyl rescalings, 639 Einstein-Fokker theory, Einstein-Hilbert action, 46, 96, 102, 114, 775, 274 and Komar's formula, 177 and Palatini's identity, 638 in dimensional reduction, 301, 333, 334, 436, 454, 471 and the string effective action, 431 boundary terms, 118 coupling to matter, 120 coupling to the Maxwell field, 218 dimensional reduction on S 1, 299, 314 string frame, 436 dimensional reduction on T n, 332 Einstein versus string frames, 433, 530 Euclideanized, 203 first-order form, 96, from gauge formulation, 144 in N = 1, d = 4 supergravity, 154 in 2d and Euler characteristic, 411 in CSK theory, 132,134 for a Dirac spinor, 139 symmetries and gauge identities, in teleparallel theories, 146, 148 Noether current, 120 purely affine form, 126 symmetries and gauge identities, 119 weak-field expansion, Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann method, 402 Einstein-Maxwell theory, 213, , 279, 285, 286, 350 and N = 2, d = 4 supergravity, 373 and electric-magnetic duality, group, 246 equations of motion, 279, 227 equations of motion with sources, 238 generalized to N vectors, 237 in4d, 310 and N = 2, d = 4 supergravity, 316 oxidation of solutions, 320 in5d and N = 1, d = 5 supergravity, 313 in higher d, 263, 317 dimensional reduction, 291, equations of motion, 263 oxidation of solutions, 320 reduction of solutions, 317 most general BH solutions, 262 with 0-term, Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, see dilaton a-model Einstein-scalar theory Einstein-Hilbert action, 20 and Komar's formula, 180 Euclideanized, 208 Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann method, 413 in 4d, in higher d, 262 oxidation of solutions, 326 JNW solutions, see solution, Janis-Newman-Winicour Einstein-Straus-Kaufman theory, 124 Einstein-Yang-Mills theories, 215 Elfbein, 449 energy-momentum tensor Belinfante, see Belinfante canonical, 26, 29, 31, 39, 47, 56, 68, 80, 133, 135 co variant, 129, 136, 140 for a scalar field, 33 of the FP theory, 79, 81 relation to the Vielbein energy-momentum tensor, 134 symmetrization and Belinfante tensor, 34, for a (p + l)-form potential, 22, 23 for the gravitational field in teleparallelism theories, 145 improved, 37, 38 Rosenfeld, see Rosenfeld super-energy-momentum tensors, 171 Vielbein, see Vielbein, energy-momentum tensor equivalence principle of gravitation and inertia, 99 ERN, see solution, extreme Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) Euler characteristic in4d, 144 Euler angles, 392, 603, 604 Euler characteristic in 2d, 412, 425 in 4d, 243, 274 with boundary terms, 243 Euler-Lagrange equations, 10, 27, 33 event horizons and Killing horizons, 197 exterior derivative, 6, 23 Fl solution, see solution, Fl Ferrara, 164 Feynman, 45, 46, 59, 95 diagrams in string theory, 409, 412 Fierz identities, 158, 159, 167, 169, 182 genera, 620 in N = 2, d = 4 supergravity, 620 in 4d, 625 Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian, 44-46, 58, 59, 63, 63-96, 101, 114 and non-symmetric gravity theories (NGT), 124 and string theory, 405 coupling to matter, consistency, 76

5 675 Noether method, 78 first-order form, 89 in a curved background, 108, in supergravity theories, 154 in teleparallel theories, massive, 66 symmetries and Noether currents, 66 wave operator, 64 covariantized, 178 Figueroa-O'Farrill, 375 Fokker, see Einstein-Fokker theory FP, see Fierz-Pauli frame, 14 Einstein, see Einstein, frame Kaluza-Klein (KK), see Kaluza-Klein (KK), frame modified Einstein, see Einstein, frame (modified) non-holonomic, 75 Frolov, 188 fundamental string (Fl) solution, see solution, Fl GCT, see general coordinate transformation Gauss, 24, 243 Gauss-Bonnet theorem, 243 Gauss-Ostrogradski theorem, 24, 27, 117 Gaussian system of units, 218 general coordinate transformation (GCT), 3 generalized dimensional reduction (GDR), see Kaluza-Klein (KK) genus, 412 geodesic, 7, 13, 45, 98, 189, 190, 229 equation, 10, 98 light-like, 192 timelike, 56, 230 Georgi-Glashow model, 276, 277 Gibbons-Hawking Euclidean approach, Gibbons-Hawking multicenter metrics, see solution, Gibbons Ginzburg-Landau Lagrangian, 345 Glashow, see Georgi-Glashow model Goldstone boson, 295, 296 Gordon, see Klein-Gordon equation Goto, see Nambu-Goto (NG) action GR, see general relativity (GR) graviphoton, 475 Green function, 287, 294, 648 Green-Schwarz (GS) actions, superparticle action, 415 superstring action, 416 Gross, 272, 291, 329 Grossmann, 55 GSO projection, 422 Gupta, 59 program, 78 Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem, 163 Hagedorn's temperature, 207 Hamilton-Jacobi equation, 73, 75 Hamiltonian, 114, 252, 253, 308 bosonic-string theory, 418, 419 fermionic-string theory, 422 positivity in supersymmetric QFTs, 397 Hanson, see solution, Eguchi-Hanson harmonic gauge, 65 Harrison transformation, 267 Hartle-Hawking paper, 281 Hawking Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, see Bekenstein-Hawking entropy Gibbons-Hawking Euclidean approach, see Gibbons Gibbons-Hawking multicent. metrics, see solution, Gibbons Hartle-Hawking paper, see Hartle-Hawking paper non-decreasing-area theorem, 197 radiation, 93, 187, 203, 205, 242, 590 absence in BPS limit, 398, 400 Schwarzschild /?-branes, 513 temperature, 205 and surface gravity, 204 and the Euclidean time period, 209 for extreme Reissner-Nordstrom (ERN) BHs, 213 negative specific heat, 205 Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) BHs, 240 viewpoint on the BH information problem, 207 Heaviside system of units, 218 Heisenberg algebras, , 285 spinorial representation, 389 Higgs field, 276, 419, 420 mechanism and generalized dimensional reduction, 341 in Kaluza-Klein (KK) theories, 294, 295, 295 Hilbert gauge, 57 Hilbert-Lorentz gauge, 57 Hirzebruch signature, 274 Hitchin, see solution, Atiyah-Hitchin Hofava-Witten scenario, 348, 465, 470, 499, 519 Hodge dual, 22, 23, 24, 217, 221, 246, 258, 264, 316, 338, 343, 448, 458, 508, 539, 541 star, 22 Hoffmann, see Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann method Hopf fibrations, 392, and the Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole, 270 and the BPST instanton, 636 and the Dirac monopole, 636 horizon area and entropy, 204 and entropy in d dimensions, 212 of Schwarzschild BH, see solution, Schwarzschild, horizon area Cauchy, 229, 230, 265, 323, 327 event, 187, 193,193, 194, 197, 200, 202, 203, 205, 212, 214, 229, 230, 232, 239, 243, 244, 265, 323, 324, 327, 350, 356, 365, 513, 516, 533, 535, 537, 539, 581 and no-hair conjecture, 196, 353 and the cosmic-censorship conjecture, 195, 196 in black /?-brane solutions, 513 Killing, 797, 198, 244 bifurcate, 198 degenerate, 198, 231 Horowitz, 515 Hosotani (or Wilson-line) mechanism, 347 ideal, see Lie, algebra, invariant subalgebra Infeld Born-Infeld, see Born-Infeld (BI) Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann method, see Einstein-Infeld instanton BPST, see solution, BPST D, see solution, D( 1) number, 598 isometry, 21 group, see Lie, group, of isometries Israel Israel-Khan solutions, see solution, Israel-Khan Witten-Nester-Israel (WNI) technique, see Witten IWP, see solution, Israel-Wilson-Perjes (rwp) Jacobi Hamilton-Jacobi equation, see Hamiton-Jacobi equation identity, 5, 6, 8, 592, 593, 597, 603 supersymmetric, 151, 163 theta functions, 545 Jacobian, 4 Janis, see solution, Janis-Newman-Winicour Johnson, 521

6 676 Jordan metric, 302 Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory, 302, 431 Kahler metric, 367 potential, 367, 368 Kalb-Ramon (KR) field, 12, 313 Kalb-Ramond (KR) field, 124, 132, 420, 434 coupling to strings, 432, 432, 439 in teleparallelism theories, 147, 148 reduction on S 1, 436 Kaluza, 291 Kaluza-Klein (KK), 121, 348, 349, 350, 426, 436 action, 358 action dualized in modified Einstein frame, 311,313 action in Einstein frame, 302 action in KK frame, 301 action in modified Einstein frame, 304 and the 4d dilaton a-model, 354 charges, 242 compactification radius and Dirac quantization, 312, 529 decompactification, 296 dimensional reduction on T n moduli, 334 dimensional reduction on S 1, Ansatz, 297 AS shock wave, 321 ERN solutions, 317, 319 massless-particle action, 306 Newton constant, 305, 457 of Einstein-Maxwell action, Scherk-Schwarz formalism, 291, , 453 Schwarzschild BHs, see solution, Schwarzschild dimensional reduction on T n, and the modular group, 336 global symmetries, 334 moduli, 334, 335 Newton constant, 338 dimensional reduction on orbifolds, 348 Hofava-Witten scenario, see Hofava-Witten scenario extreme electric KK BH in higher d, 408 frame, 121, 302, 322, 357 generalized dimensional reduction (GDR), and (d - 3)-branes, 342 and Wilson lines, 347 metric, 121, 302 modes, 282, 293, 294, 408, 426, 427, 447, 523, 649 and the DO-brane, 528, 554 Bogomol'nyi identity for, 310 in string theory, 426, 428, 436, 442 masses and charges, 310 worldline action, 309 moduli, 299 and T duality, 492 Newton constant, 431 principle, 297 scalar, 295, 296, 311, 348, 349, 426, 441, 576 and the dilaton, 447, 458 and T duality, 437, 491 skew dimensional reduction on S l, 330 spectrum, , 372 massless modes, 295 S duality of 4d theory, 491 vacuum, 292, 372 and T duality, 484 instability, 296 metric, 292 moduli problem, 292 symmetries, 292, 295 vector, 294, 296, 348, 408, 426, 427, 439, 477, 522 and the RR 1-form, 458 and T duality, 482 and T duality, 437, 446, 466, 473, 480, 484, 491 in string theory, 437 Kaluza-Klein (KK) Melvin, see solution, Kaluza-Klein (KK) solution, see solution, Melvin Kaluza-Klein (KK) mode, see Kaluza-Klein (KK), mode Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole and SU(2) holonomy, 399 as M-theory solution and the M superalgebra, 557 as M-theory solution (KK7M), 523 intersections, 565 worldvolume fields, 566 as string-theory solution (KK6) and the IIB superalgebra, 559 as string-theory solution unbroken supersymmetries, 561 as string-theory solution (KK6), , 526 and the IIA superalgebra, 558 intersections, 565 worldvolume fields, 566 as string-theory solutions (KK6) in BH constructions, , 588 solution, see solution, Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole worldvolume action, 505, 512 Kaufman, see Einstein-Straus-Kaufman Keplerian orbits, 72, 73, 189 Kerr, see solution, Kerr KGn, see solution, Kowalski-Glikman in nd Khan, see solution, Israel-Khan Kibble, see Cartan-Sciama-Kibble (CSK) theory Kaluza-Klein (KK), 290 modes in string theory, 500 scalar, 511 vector, 511 Kaluza-Klein (KK) mode worldvolume action, 511 Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole Killing conformal equation, 21 in Minkowski spacetime, 40 energy, 777 equation, 27, 98, 111, 297, 370, 378, 504 in Minkowski spacetime, 36 integrability condition, 21 form, see Killing, metric horizon, see horizon, Killing versus Killing spinor, 183 metric, 43, 144, 284, 385, 498, 594, 594, of so(«+,«_), 600 spinor, 176,183, 373, 378, , 399, 400, 496, 563, 608 as fermionic generator of a symmetry superalgebra, 373, 374, 378 bilinear and bosonic generators, 374, 379 dependence on internal coordinates, 391, 482^483 of AdS 4,389 of Minkowski spacetime, 384 of the D/?-branes, 561 of the F 1,562 ofthekk7m-brane,567 ofthem2-brane, 560 of the M5-brane, 560 of the S5-brane, 562 preserved by the covariant Lie derivative, 379 versus Killing vector, 183, 374, 384 spinor equation, 373, 378, 379 and holonomy, 399 as a paralellism equation, 380 integrability equation, 380

7 677 integrability equation in N = 2, d = 4 theories, of N = 1, d = 4 AdS supergravity, 385 of N = l,d = 4- Poincare supergravity, 183, 398 of N = 1, d = 6 supergravity, 390 oftv = 2, d = 4 Poincare supergravity, 387 spinors general form in maximally supersymmetric vacua, 380 T-duality tranformation rules, see Buscher T duality, in type-ii theories, transformations of Killing spinors vector, 21, 98, 110, 111, , 183, 270, 288, 330, 370, 375, 378, 391, 504, 608 and symmetry of the point-particle action, 307 as bosonic generator of a symmetry superalgebra, 374, 378 as generators of the isometry algebra, 371, 504 commuting and compactification on T n, 331 conformal, 21 conformal and Lie-Lorentz derivative, gauge, 176 null, covariantly constant and Brinkmann metrics, 282, 647 of coset manifolds, 606, 607 of maximally symmetric spaces, 605 of Minkowski metric, 67 of Minkowski spacetime, 384 of stationary axially symmetric metrics, 268 of the Minkowski metric, 35, 99, 178 spacelike and Kaluza-Klein (KK) compactification, timelike and definition of mass, 179 timelike and Killing horizon, 244 timelike and staticity, 188 timelike and surface gravity, 198 timelike and the Schwarzschild metric, 191 translational, 779 versus Killing spinor, 374, 384 KK6-brane, see Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole, as string-theory solution (KK6) KK7M-brane, see Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole, as M-theory solution (KK7M) KK8A-brane, 526 KK9A-brane, 526 KK9M-brane, 465, 524 and the M superalgebra, 557 Klein, 290 Kaluza-Klein theories, see Kaluza-Klein Klein-Gordon equation, 36, 293, 294 Komar's formula, 180, 221 compared to Abbott-Deser approach, 180 in higher d, 211 Kosmann, 375 Kraichnan, 59 Kretschmann invariant, 790 Lagrange, see Euler-Lagrange Landau Ginzburg-Landau Lagrangian, see Ginzburg-Landau Landau-Lifshitz energy-momentum pseudo tensor, 173, compared with Abbott-Deser approach, 178, 179 Laplace equation, 272, 280, 294, 551, 648, 649 Legendre transformation, 308, 442 Leibniz rule, 5, 6, 376 level operators, 419 Lichnerowicz, 375 Lie algebra, 5, 43, 597, 592, 595 Abelian, 594 Bianchi classification of 3d real Lie algebras, 602 complexified, 593 de Sitter (anti-), see de Sitter (anti-), algebra derived subalgebra, 594 Heisenberg, see Heisenberg algebras invariant subalgebra, 594, 605 nilpotent, 284, 594, 594 of isometry group, 183 ofgl(rf), 15 ofso(l, 2), 602 ofso(3), 270 of SO(4) (anti-)self-dual generators, 275 of SO(n +,n-), 600 of SO(«+, «_) (spinorial representation), 601 of SU(2) (SO(3)), 602 of isometries, 371, 379 of the conformal group SO(2, d - 1), 40 of the Lorentz group SO(l, d - 1), 40 of the Lorentz group SO(l, d 1) (spinorial representation), 677,612 of the Poincare ISO(l, d - 1), 35 of the Poincare ISO(l, d - 1), 143 of the Poincare group ISO(l, d - 1), 36, 40, 384 reductive decomposition, 605 semidirect sum, 605 semisimple, 594, 594 simple, 594 solvable, 284, 594, 594 symmetric decomposition, 605 bracket, 5, 80, 592 and commutators of matrices, 592 brackets and Ricci rotation coefficients, 15 covariant derivative, 608 derivative, 5, 6, 8, 13, 297, 371, 374, 379, 608 //-covariant, 608 and extrinsic curvature, 25 and Killing vectors, 20 covariant, 369, 375, , 379 properties, 5 spinorial, see Lie, Lie-Lorentz derivative group, 591 ISO(«+,«_), 599 SO(n +,n-),598 SO(«+, «_), vector representation, 599 SU(2), 603 affine group IGL(d, M), 17 and N = 1, 2, d = 6 vacua, 390 compact, 593 compact (Weyl theorem), 594 conformal SO(2, d - 1), 40 de Sitter (anti-), see de Sitter (anti-), group invariant subgroup, 594 Lorentz SO(l, d - 1), 17, 32, 142 of isometries, 370 Poincare ISO(l, d - 1), 17, 26, 32, 46, 48, 49, 52, 96, 108, 114, 127, 132, 134, 137, , 150 Riemannian geometry, semisimple, 594 simple, 594 translation, 145 Lie-Lorentz derivative, 375, , 384, 608 and //-covariant Lie derivative, 381 Lie-Maxwell derivative, 375, , 608 superalgebra N = 1, d = 4 Poincare, 151 supergroup de Sitter (anti-), see de Sitter (anti-), supergroup Poincare, 150 Lie-Lorentz derivative, see Lie, Lie-Lorentz derivative Lie-Maxwell derivative, see Lie, Lie-Maxwell derivative Lifshitz, see Landau-Lifshitz energy-momentum pseudotensor Lindquist, see coordinates, Boyer-Lindquist loop quantization, 138 Lopuszanski, see Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem Lorentz group, see Lie, group, Lorentz Hilbert-Lorentz gauge, see Hilbert-Lorentz gauge Lie-Lorentz derivative, see Lie, Lie-Lorentz derivative Lovelock tensor, 101

8 678 MacDowell-Mansouri formulation, 114, 140, 742 Majorana conjugate, 601, 615 in arbitrary signature, 628 representation, 617 spinors, 617, 628 Majorana-Weyl spinors, 617, 628 Maldacena, 536, 573 manifold, 3 Mansouri, see MacDowell-Mansouri formulation Maurer-Cartan 1-form, 278, 380, 382, 385, 387, 389, 391, 592, 603, 606, 607, 636 SO(n), 609 SU(2), 604 horizontal, 606 vertical, 606 equations, 380, 592, 592, 603, 604, 607 Maxwell Lie-Maxwell derivative, see Lie, Lie-Maxwell derivative Melvin Kaluza-Klein (KK) Melvin solution, see solution, Kaluza-Klein (KK) Melvin solution, see solution, Melvin Mercury (precession of the perihelion), 45, 46, 57, 59, 76, 78, 85, 88 metric, 9 conformastationary, 280 induced, 98 Killing, see Killing, metric postulate, 10 Ricci-flat, see Ricci, -flat metric Mills, see Yang-Mills Misner, 176, 270 moduli, 218, 407 monopole 't Hooft-Polyakov, see solution, 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole Dirac, see Dirac, magnetic monopole Kaluza-Klein (KK), see solution, Kaluza-Klein (KK) Wu-Yang, see Wu-Yang monopole MP, see solution, Majumdar-Papapetrou Nambu-Goto (NG) action, 528 for /?-branes in curved spacetime, 501, 503 wrapped on p dimensions, 501 for D/?-branes, 511 for fundamental /?-branes, 511 for Kaluza-Klein /?-branes, 512 for momentum modes, 511 for point-particles in curved spacetime, 97-99, 224 coupled to a scalar, 306, 309 for point-particles in Minkowski spacetime, 51, 52 for solitonic /?-branes, 511 for strings in curved spacetime, 409, 410, 413, 435 for winding modes, 511 Nambu-Goto (NG) action Nester Witten-Nester-Israel (WNI) technique, see Witten Nester 2-form, 181 Neugebauer, 281 Neumann (N) boundary conditions, 410 Neveu Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz (RNS) model, see Ramond-Neveu-S ch warz Neveu-Schwarz (NS) boundary conditions for closed superstrings, 414 for open superstrings, 414 Newman Janis-Newman-Winicour solutions, see solution, Janis-Newman-Winicour Kerr-Newman solution, see solution, Kerr-Newman Newman-Penrose formalism, 131 NGT, see non-symmetric gravity theory (NGT) Nicolai-Townsend transformations, 437 nilpotent, see Lie, algebra, nilpotent Noether approach to conserved charges in GR, current, 29, 31, 36, 38, 43, 61, 66, 77, 80, 82, 85, 93, 110, 114, 178, 305, 339 for Lorentz transformations, 34 for translations, 32 in Maxwell theory, 221, 223, 227 in Maxwell theory with #-term, 256 of the CSK theory, of the Einstein-Hilbert action, superpotential, 30, 30 method, 41^44, 46, 59 for gravity, 78-88, 95 for supergravity, 154 method, 78 theorems, 26^44, 49, 61, 98, 217 non-symmetrc gravity theory (NGT), 113 non-symmetric gravity theory (NGT), 114, Einstein-Straus-Kaufman theory, see Einstein-Straus Nordstrom Kaluza-Klein theories, 290 Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) BH, see solution, RN scalar theories of gravity, 46, 55 and Einstein-Fokker's, 56 Nordtvedt effect, 77 Novikov, 188 NS, see Neveu-Schwarz NS5-brane, see S5-brane NUT charge, 269 charge versus magnetic mass, 269 Euclidean Taub-NUT, see solution, Euclidean Taub-NUT Taub-NUT, see solution, Taub-NUT Op planes, see orientifold (Op) planes Ogievetsky, 58, 80 Olive, 395 orientifold (Op) planes, 421 Ostrogradski, see Gauss-Ostrogradski theorem Palatini formalism, see Einstein-Hilbert action, first-order form identity, see Einstein-Hilbert action, and Palatini's identity for the variation of the Ricci tensor, 705, 124, 132, 137 Papapetrou equations for a pole-dipole singularity, 413 Majumdar-Papapetrou solutions, see solution, Majumdar parallel spinor, see Killing, spinors transport, 6 Paton, see Chan-Paton factors Pauli Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian, see Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian matrices, 164, 274, 275, 383, 468, 488, 496, 613, 620 metric, 617 terms, 94 Peccei-Quinn symmetry, 360 PEGI, see principle of equivalence of gravitation and inertia Pellegrini-Plebanski Lagrangian, Penrose diagram, 193 Dp p < 7 spacetime, 540 extreme Reissner-Nordstrom (ERN) spacetime, 231 M2 spacetime, 533 naked singularity, 195 Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) spacetime, 229 Schwarzschild spacetime, 193 limit, 283, 286, 390, 563

9 679 Newman-Penrose formalism, see Newman-Penrose formalism Perjes, see solution, Israel-Wilson-Perjes (rwp) Perry, 272, 291, 329 PGR, see principle of general covariance or relativity Planck, 51 constant, 292 length, 103, 775, 116 and horizon entropy, 204, 582 and S duality in Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory, 312 compared with the Compton wavelength and Schwarzschild radius, 116,206 in lid, 454, 457, 457, 529 in 1 Id versus the string length, 524 reduced, 775 size of compact dimensions, 292, 293 versus string length, 405 mass, 116,116, 242 masses of Kaluza-Klein modes, 293 reduced, 116 Plebafiski Pellegrini-Plebaiiski Lagrangian, see Pellegrini-Plebanski Plebanski-Demiafiski solutions, see solution, Plebafiski Poincare N = (1, 0), d = 6 supergravity, 316, 320 action, 390 supersymmetry transformation, 390 vacua, N = 1, d = 1 supergravity action, 472 supersymmetry transformations, 472 N = l,d = 10 supergravity, 300, 303, 338, 354 action, 470 andheterotic superstrings, 348, 361, 423 and type-i superstrings, 423 compactification on T 4 and N = 2 A, d = 10 on K3, 481 compactification on T n, supersymmetry transformations, 470 N=l,d = U supergravity, 290, 300, 303, , 531, 551, 572 action, 449 and M theory, 348, 447, 523 and the supermembrane, 417 compactification on S 1, , compactification on S 4, 536, 563 compactification on S 7, 534, 563 compactification on T 2, 338 compactification on T 3, 338 supersymmetry transformations, 457 vacua, 563 N =l,d = 2 supergravity action, 413 and superstrings, supersymmetry transformations, 413 N=l,d = 4 supergravity, 134, 151, , 377 action, 754, 755 super symmetric solutions, supersymmetry transformations, 156 vacua, N=l,d = 5 supergravity, 291, 320, 393 action, 313 supersymmetry transformation, 392 vacua, N = 2,d = 4 supergravity, 151, , 374, 375, 382, 393, 396, 397 action, 164 from N = 1, d = 5 supergravity, 316 super symmetric solutions, supersymmetry transformations, 166 vacua, N = 2A, d = 10 massive (Romans') supergravity, , 502 action, 464 and type-iia superstrings in a D8 background, 539 N = 2A,d = lo supergravity, 303, 348, 508, 551, 554, 573 action, 457 and type-iia superstrings, 422, 430, 447, 523 compactification on K3 and N = 1, d = 10 on T 4, 481 compactification on S, compactified on T" and U duality, 587 supersymmetry transformations, 462, 463 truncation to N = l,d = 10 supergravity, 469 N = 2B,d = \0 supergravity, 338, , 508, 551, 554, 573 action (NSD) in Einstein frame, 490 action (NSD) in string frame, 486 and type-iib superstrings, 407, 422, 430, 485 compactification on S 1, compactification on S 5, 540, 563 Euclidean, 540 supersymmetry transformations, 488 truncation to N =\,d = 10 supergravity, 497^499 vacua, 563 N = 4,d = 4 supergravity, 281, 338, 357, 362, 363, 366, 407, 541 action, 361, 482 and heterotic strings on T, 349 supersymmetric solutions, 400 N = 4, d = 5 supergravity, 578 and U duality, 586 N = 8, d = 4 supergravity, 575 and U duality, 586 duality, 248 of Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory, 310 gauge theory of gravity, 146 group, see Lie, group, Poincare Poisson equation, 48 Polchinski, 435, 521 Polubarinov, 58, 80 Polyakov, 261, 267 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, see solution, 't Hooft Polyakov-type action as a-model, 99 for massless point-particles coupled to linearized gravity, 70 for massless point-particles in curved spacetime, 97, 307 as source for AS shock wave, 287 reduction on S 1, for massless point-particles in Minkowski spacetime, 52 for point-particles in curved spacetime, 97 for point-particles in Minkowski spacetime, 52 for strings in curved spacetime, 470 topological term, 411 supersymmetric, see Poincare, N = l,d = 2 supergravity Pontrjagin class (first), 274 Prasad, see Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) principle of correspondence, see correspondence principle principle of equivalence of gravitation and inertia (PEGI), 56, 69 and the principle of general covariance or relativity (PGR), 93 strong form and self-coupling of the gravitational field, 77, 78 weak form and identity between gravitational and inertial masses, 72 principle of general covariance of relativity (PGR), 96, and point-particle actions, 96 and the equations of motion of the gravitational field, 101 and the Lovelock tensor, 101 Proca Lagrangian, 60, dualization, Pythagoras, 434 QFT, see quantum field theory quantum field theory (QFT), 143, 188, 213, 369, 371, 372, 374, 397, 573, 676 Quinn, see Peccei-Quinn symmetry

10 680 R, see Ramond Ramond Kalb-Ramond (KR) field, see Kalb-Ramond Ramond (R) boundary conditions for closed superstrings, 414 for open superstrings, 414 Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz (RNS) model, 414 Randall-Sundrum scenarios, 519 Rarita-Schwinger spinor, 134, 752, 154 RB, see solution, Robinson-Bertotti (RB) reduction theorem, 273 Regge slope, 409, 547 Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) BH, see solution, Reissner-Nordstrom rheonomic approach, see supergravity theories, rheonomic Ricci -flat metric, 93, 277, 287, form, 25 identities, 8 identity, 12,18, 21, 109, 111, 158, 182, 602 for GL(d, R) connection, 16 for Yang-Mills fields, 597 rotation coefficients, 75, 145, 333 scalar, 9, 12, 13, 40, 56, 102, 106, 114, 115, 132, 301, 305, 333, 454,471,482 linearized, 94 tensor, 8, 12, 13, 91, 92, 94, 107, 123, 126, 273 of group manifolds with bi-invariant metrics, 603 Riemann 2-form, 25 space, tensor, 7, 7, 12, 14, 107, 126, 605 of a maximally symmetric space, 610 relation with the curvature of the GL(d, R) connection, 16 Riemann-Cartan spacetime, 10-12, 144 RN, see solution, Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) RNS model, see Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz Robinson Bel-Robinson tensor, see Bel-Robinson tensor Robinson-Bertotti (RB) solution, see solution, Robinson-Bertotti Romans, see Poincare, N = 2A, d = 10 massive Rosenfeld energy-momentum tensor, 34, 35, 38, 39-41, 58, 59, 68, 73, 80, 82, 93, 130 and gauge identities, 102, 172 for a massive point-particle, 50 for the first-order FP theory, 90, 93 for the FP theory, 83, 85, 86 and corrections to the point-particle solution, 87 relation to the one predicted by GR, 84 of embedding coordinates, 410 Rosenfeld energy-momentum tensor, 172 Rumpf Lagrangian, 146 SRFT, see special-relativistic field theory SRQFT, see special-relativistic quantum-field theory S5-brane solution, see solution, S5 Sagnac connection, 283 Scherk-Schwarz formalism for dimensional reduction, see Kaluza-Klein (KK) Schoen-Yau positive-energy theorem, 181 Schrodinger Eckart-Schrodinger representation, see Eckart-Schrodinger representation Schrodinger equation, 252, 253 Schur's lemma, 616 Schwarz (A.S.), see solution, BPST instanton Schwarz (J.H.) Green-Schwarz (GS) actions, see Green-Schwarz (GS) actions Neveu-Schwarz (NS) boundary conditions, see Neveu Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz (RNS) model, see Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz model Scherk-Schwarz formalism for dimensional reduction, see Kaluza-Klein (KK) Schwarzschild coordinates, 176, 188, 189, 228, 269 problems of, 191 observer, 192, 193 radius, 74, 116,116, , 589 at the correspondence point, 577 compared with the Compton wavelength and Planck length, 116,206 solutions, see solution, Schwarzschild time, 192, 193 Sch winger Dirac-Schwinger-Zwanziger (DSZ) quantization condition, see Dirac-Schwinger-Zwanziger (DSZ) quantization condition pair creation, 205 Rarita-Schwinger spinor, see Rarita-Schwinger spinor Sciama, see Cartan-Sciama-Kibble (CSK) theory semisimple algebra (group), see Lie, algebra (group) Sen argument, 245, 434 Sexl, see solution, Aichelburg-Sexl shock wave Simons, see Chern-Simons simple algebra (group), see Lie, algebra (group) Smarr formula for RN BHs, 240 for Schwarzschild BHs, 203, 205 in higher d, 212 Sohnius, see Haag-Lopuszaiiski-Sohnius theorem solution AdS 2 x S 2, 235 AdS 2 x S d ~ 2, 266 AdS 3 x S 3, 390 AdS 4 xs 7,5J4, 560, 563 AdS 5 xs 5, 540,563 AdS 7 x S 4, 536, 560, 563 AdS d,534 as coset spaces, 610 S 1 as a Hopf fibration, 636 S n, S n as coset spaces, p-brane a-model, 575 with extra isometries, 516 pq-5, 556 pq-strings, 555 AdSj as coset spaces, 384 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, 267, 276 BPS limit, see Bogomornyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) Aichelburg-Sexl (AS) shock wave, 71, 286 dimensional reduction, see Kaluza-Klein (KK), dimensional reduction on S 1 Atiyah-Hitchin, 279 axion-dilaton BH, 363 Bianchi IX gravitational instantons, Bonnor's magnetic dipole, 196 BPST instanton, 267, 272, and the KK monople, 277 and the round S 7, 636 and the S5-brane, 562 BTZ black hole, 211,590 Chazy-Curzon, 324 composite 4d BHs, 574 N = 8, d = 4 central charges, 575 ADM mass, 575 horizon area, 575 relation with dilaton BHs, 575 D(-l), 541 D3, 539

11 Dp, 538 compactified on T 6, 577 compactified on JP, 576 Dp (black), 532 Dp (black, p < 7), 538 D7, 543 D7 (another form), 544 D7 (modular-covariant form), 544 dilaton a = 1 BH (dyonic), 357 dilaton a = 1, d = 4 BH (electric), 355 dilaton a = 1/V3, rf = 4BH (electric), 355 dilaton a = V3, d = 4 BH (electric), 354, 576, 577 dilaton BHs, 350 thermodynamics, 356 dilaton general a, d BH (electric), 352 dilaton general a, d = 4 BH (electric), 354 Eguchi-Hanson, 272, 277 as a Bianchi IX gravitational instanton, 278 as a Bianchi IX gravitational instanton with self-dual connection, 279 Euclidean Taub-NUT, see solution, Kaluza-Klein monopole multicenter, 272 extreme electric KK BH in higher d, 322, 357 extreme Reissner-Nordstrom (ERN), 231, 291, 310, 397, 532, 533 4d entropy, Euclidean calculation, 244 and equilibrium of forces, 234 as a supersymmetric solution, 398 as an interpolating soliton, 235 as supersymmetric solution, 399, 400 dimensional reduction, see Kaluza-Klein (KK), dimensional reduction in 4d Euclidean, 242, 244 in 4d isotropic coordinates, 232 in IWP class, 281 near-horizon limit, 235 oxidation, 320 reduced on S 1, 319 reduction on S 1, , 322 Extreme Reissner-Nordstrom (ERN) in 4d as composite BHs, 575 near-horizon limit, 519 Penrose diagram, 231 Fp (black), 531 Fl,445 compactified on S 1, 576 compactified on T 6, 576 Fl (black), 536, 536 Godel-like solution of N = \,d = 5 SUGRA, 381, 393, 393 Gibbons-Hawking multicenter metrics, 272 and self-duality, 273 wire singularities, 272 intersecting branes /?-brane (a\ a'l) model, 571 D5 Dl W (black), 580 D5 Dl W (black, reduced to 5d), 581 D5 Dl S5A W (black), 584 D5 Dl S5A W (black, reduced to 4d), 585 D5 Dl (black), 579 M2 _L M2(0), 572 M2_LM5(1), 572 Israel-Khan, 323, 324 and periodic arrays of Schwarzschild BHs, 325 Israel-Wilson-Perjes (IWP), 280, 281 as solutions of N = 2,d = 4 supergravity, 399, 400 as solutions of N = 4, d = 4 supergravity, 400 connection and curvature, 642 included in SWIP class, 366 Neugebauer, see Neugebauer Janis-Newman-Winicour in 4d, 275, 351 in higher d, 263,351 massless, 216 scalar hair, 216 Kaluza-Klein (KK) Melvin, 331 Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole, 267, 270, 272, 329 and the D6-brane, 554 and T duality, 555 as a Bianchi IX gravitational instanton, 278, 279 as M-theory solution (KK7M), 460 worldvolume action, 522 Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopole, 501 Kerr, 180, 196,268 and cosmic censorship, 268 interior solution not known, 268 Kerr-Newman, 267, 279 boosting, 286 in IWP class, 281 in SWIP class, 366 supersymmetric, 399 Kerr-Newman, 195, 196 Kowalski-Glikman Hpp-waves, 381 Kowalski-Glikman in lod (KG10), 434, 563 Kowalski-Glikman in 1 Id (KG11), 563 Kowalski-Glikman in 4d (KG4), 286, 382, 386, 393, 399 supersymmetry algebra, 389 Kowalski-Glikman in 5d (KG5), 287, 393 Kowalski-Glikman in 6d (KG6), 391 dimensional reduction, 393 Mp (black), 531 M2, 533 M2 (black), 533 M5, 535 M5 (black), 535 Majumdar-Papapetrou (MP), 397 dyonic in 4d isotropic coordinates, 260 in 4d isotropic coordinates, 233 in higher d, 317 in higher-d isotropic coordinates, 265 Melvin, 267, 331 Plebanski-Demiafiski, 400 Reissner-Nordstrom (RN), 268, 356 4d dyonic in Schwarzschild coordinates, 260 4d entropy, 240, 244 4d magnetic, 260 4d temperature, 240 ADM mass, 228 and the cosmic-censorship conjecture, 230 as Weyl's static axisymmetric electrovacuum solution, 228 Cauchy horizon, 229 derived, 227 discharge, 205 horizon area, 229 in 4d, 280 in 4d alternative coordinate system, 236 in 4d dressed-schwarschild form, 236 in 4d Euclidean, 242, 273 in 4d Schwarzschild coordinates, 228 in 4d, as a string solution, 585 in 5d as a string solution, 581 in dilaton a-model, 351, 352, 358 in higher d, 265 Penrose diagram, 229 reduction on S l, 325 sources, specific heat, 241 thermodynamics, with N electric charges, 237 Reissner-Nordstrom-Kaluza-Klein (RNKK) dyon, 330, 350 Reissner-Nordstrom-(anti-)de Sitter, 779

12 682 solution (cont.) Robinson-Bertotti (RB), 235, 286, 382, 399, 519 Reissner-Nordstrom (RN), 196, 203 as a vacuum ofn = 2,d = 4 SUEGRA, 386 dyonic in 4d, 394 electric, in 4d, 235 electric, in higher d, 266 in 4d Euclidean, 242 symmetry superalgebra, , 608 Sp (black), 531 S5, 537 S5 (black), 537 Schwarzschild, , 215, 216, 225, 228, 230, 234, 236, 238, 240, 242, 578 4d entropy, 204 4d temperature, 204 ADM mass, 189 and supersymmetry, 398 as an eternal BH, 194 as Weyl's axisymmetric vacuum solution, 324 boosting, 286 derived, 188 dimensional oxidation of, 326 dimensional reduction of, entropy in higher d, 212 horizon area, 197 horizon area in higher d, 212 in 4d Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, 191 in 4d Euclidean, , 242, 273 in 4d Euclidean action, 211 in 4d harmonic coordinates, 200 in 4d isotropic coordinates, 198 in 4d Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, 193, 194 in 4d Schwarzschild coordinates, 176, 179,188, 268, 269 in higher d, 211, 263, 264, 352, 512, 578 in string theory, 405 interior, 190 Penrose diagram, 193 periodic arrays of, 325 perturbations of, 195 perturbative expansion, 88 singularities, , 230, 238 sources, specific heat, 205 stability, 189 surface gravity, 198 temperature in higher d, 212 thermodynamics, , 241, 356 with negative mass, 195 Schwarzschild /?-branes, 326, 331, , 515 instability of, tension, 513 SWIP, , 544, 588 as N = 2, d = 4 supergravity solutions, as solutions of N = 4, d = 4 supergravity, 400 duality properties, 366 entropy and N = 4, d = 4 central charges, 401 general, horizon area, 365 supersymmetric, Taub-bolt, 273 as a Bianchi IX gravitational instanton, 278 Taub-NUT, charged, 268 electrically charged, 280 extreme electrically charged, 280 in Schwarzschild coordinates, 269 interior solutions, 271 Weyl's axisymmetric vacuum, 323 boosting, 286 higher-d generalizations, 326 Schwarzschild solution, 324 Weyl's static axisymmetric electrovacuum, 228 solvable, see Lie, algebra, solvable Sommerfield, see Bogomornyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) Sorkin, 272, 291, 329 space affinely connected, 6 cotangent, see cotangent space maximally symmetric, 605 Riemann, see Riemann, space Riemann-Cartan, see Riemann-Cartan spacetime tangent, see tangent space Weitzenbock, see Weitzenbock, spacetime special geometry, special-relativistic field theory (SRFT), 26, 32, 33, 45-47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57-61, 63, 65, 67-73, 75, 77-79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 96, 100, 112, 171, 173, 200 special-relativistic quantum-field theory (SRQFT), 95, 112 specific heat dilaton a-model BH, 356 Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) BH, 213, 247 Schwarzschild BH, 205 spin-energy potential, 34, 36,41, 131, 135, 136 spin-energy potnetial, 133 spinning particle, 413 spinor, 601 Dirac, see Dirac, spinor Majorana, see Majorana, spinor Majorana-Weyl, see Majorana-Weyl, spinor symplectic-majorana, 618, 629 Weyl, see Weyl, spinor squashed S 3 and S 7, 637 spheres, 609 Stiickelberg field, 226, 227, 258, 259, 296, 314, 341, 342, 345, 465 Stokes' theorem, 24, 29, 31, 32, 175, 178, 181, 222, 223, 250, 255, 257, 276, 306, 507, 508 and the Gauss-Ostrogradski theorem, 24 Straus, see Einstein-Straus-Kaufman string USp(32) theory, 498 coupling constant, 116, 412, 420, 425, 431, 456, 487 heterotic theories, 423 length, 116, 292, 409, 430, 431, 520, 527, 547, 577, 582 versus lid Planck length, 524 versus Planck length, 405 mass, 409 metric, 121 oriented, 411 singularity, see Dirac, string singularity type-i theories, 423 type-l' theory, 499 type-iia theories, 422 type-iib theories, 422 unoriented, 411 Strominger, 515 Strominger-Vafa paper, 579 SUEGRA, see supergravity theories, extended SUGRA, see supergravity theories Sundrum, see Randall-Sundrum scenarios mechanism, 346, 465 supergravity theories, 113, 126, 132, 313, 349, 354, 358, 359, , 373, 375, 380, 405, 413, 417, 424 N = 2, d = 4 supergravity and special geometry, 367 and the WNI technique, 181, 395 as effective string theories, 290, , 432, 435 as supergroup gauge theories, 140, 142, and supersymmetric solutions, Bogomol'nyi (or BPS) bounds, see Bogomol'nyi (or BPS) bounds bosonic truncation, 373 de Sitter (anti-), 143, see de Sitter (anti-)defined, 150