'Geometry of String Theory Compactifications would be a most appropriate acquisition for a comprehensive university library, especially one supporting an active group of string theory researchers, whether they be in mathematics or physics departments … Recommended.' M. C. Ogilvie, Choice
Conventions. Preface. Introduction. 1. String theory and supergravity; 2. Spinors; 3. From spinors to forms; 4. Differential geometry; 5. Geometry of forms; 6. Kähler geometry; 7. Ricci-flatness; 8. Vacua and reductions; 9. Minkowski compactifications; 10. The vacuum problem in general; 11. AdS vacua; 12. Frontiers. Bibliography. Index.