'The authors provide an up-to-date, well-organised background and essential elements of supergravity notions as well as all relevant aspects of Chern-Simons for

The first comprehensive survey of (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity - for graduate students and researchers.

The Latin American Symposium on Relativity and Gravitation has been held every two or three years over the past twenty years. This is the seventh in the series.

Supergravity, together with string theory, is one of the most significant developments in theoretical physics. Written by two of the most respected workers in t