Part III
Gravitating Extended Objects of String Theory

14 String Theory
15 The String Effective Action and T Duality
16 From Eleven to Four Dimensions
17 The Type IIB Superstring and Type II T Duality
18 Extended Objects
19 The Extended Objects of String Theory
20 General p-brane solutions
21 String Black Holes in Four and Five Dimensions
A Lie Groups, Symmetric Spaces and Yang-Mills Fields
B Gamma Matrices and Spinors
C n-Spheres
D Palatini’s Identity
E Conformal Rescalings
F Connections and Curvature Components
G The Harmonic Operator on ℝ³ × S¹
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