General Relativity II

Lecturers

J.Prof. Dr. Harald Ita 

Dates

• Lecture: 2 hours, time Tue 8-10, place: SRII, start: 29.04.2014 (Lecturer Harald Ita)
• Tutorial: 2 hours, time Tue 10-12, place: SRII, start: 29.04.2014 (Tutor Lukas Altenkamp). 
  Please register for the tutorial on the campus management website of the tutorial.

  (Registration starts on 28.04, 12.00. More information will be given in the first lecture.)

Problem Sets for Tutorial

• Exercises 1+2
• Exercises 3+4 
• Exercises 5+6
• Exercises 7+8  
• Exercises 9+10 (for 22nd of July) 

Content

• Geometrical Methods
• Black Holes
• Quantization of the Bosonic and Supersym. String
• Methods in 2d CFT
• Extended Objects (D-Branes)

For Bachelor-Students

 The lecture is suitable as supplementary or elective course; Wahlpflicht- bzw. Wahlbereich.

For Masters-Students

 The lecture is suitable as Advanced Theory course in the Elective Subjects.

Prerequisits

Special Relativity, basics in General Relativity, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics.

 Requirements for Academic Record

• active and regular participation in the tutorials (including the presentation of homework problems) and written exam.
• in case an exam ( "Prüfungsleistung")  is required, a written/oral exam will be offered. Prerequisite is the successful participation in the tutorials.

Further details will be given in the lecture/tutorials.

Textbooks

• General relativity lecture notes of Blau and Marolf
• Jacobs: lectures on black hole thermodynamics
• Traschen: black hole radiation
• Baumann: TASI lectures on inflation 
• Polchinski: "String Theory I" and "String Theory II"
• Kiritsis: "Introduction to Superstring Theory"

 More advanced Textbooks

• Nakahara: "Geometry, Topology and Physics"