Special metrics and supersymmetry : Workshop on Geometry and Physics: Special Metrics and Supersymmetry : Bilbao, Spain, 29-31 May 2008

Includes contributions to the International Workshop on Geometry and Physics: Special Metrics and Supersymmetry, held at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain), from May 29 to 31, 2008. This book deals with various aspects of algebraic and differential geometry with emphasis to their applications in supersymmetry and string theories.

D. V. Alekseevsky and V. CortésB. Andreas and D. Hernández Ruipérez and D. Sáchez GómezL. J. BoyaE. Calviño-Louzao and E. García-Río and R. Vázquez-LorenzoA. S. Cattaneo and M. ZambonG. R. CavalcantiU. Gran and J. Gutowski and G. Papadopoulos and D. RoestL. KatzarkovG. MaschlerG. Papadopoulos and U. GranA. SwannF. Witt

Preface	p. vii
Committees	p. ix
Sponsors	p. xi
Lectures
On Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds with Many Killing Spinors	p. 3
Stable Vector Bundles on Calabi-Yau Threefolds	p. 19
Supersymmetry and Polytopes	p. 283
Four-Dimensional Osserman Metrics Revisited	p. 35
Graded Geometry and Poisson Reduction	p. 48
Computations of Generalized Dolbeault Cohomology	p. 57
The Classification of Highly Supersymmetric Supergravity Solutions	p. 70
Generalized Homological Mirror Symmetry, Superschemes, and Nonrationality	p. 92
Uniqueness of Einstein Metrics Conformal to Extremal Käet;hler Metrics-A Computer Assisted Approach	p. 132
Solutions of Heterotic Killing Spinor Equations and Special Geometry	p. 144
Quaternionic Torsion Geometry, Superconformal Symmetry and T-Duality	p. 162
Gauge Theory in Dimension 7	p. 180
List of Participants	p. 197
Group Photo	p. 199
Author Index	p. 201

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