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Topics in gravity and supergravity
Abstract
In the first part of the thesis we study the formation of non-singular black holes in the collapse of magnetic monopoles. We employ a thin shell approximation model for a gravitating magnetic monople in which a false vacuum deSitter interior is matched to a Reissner-Nordström exterior. In the second part of the thesis we study solutions of D = 11 supergravity that correspond to M-branes wrapping supersymmetric cycles of Calabi-Yau manifolds. In the final chapter of the thesis we focus on the condition imposed by supersymmetry on the Kähler form of the Calabi-Yau manifold.
Subject Area
Particle physics
Recommended Citation
Cho, Hyunji, "Topics in gravity and supergravity" (2003). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI3110473.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3110473