Black hole information and thermodynamics. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dieter Lüst, Ward Vleeshouwers.
• Authors: Lüst, Dieter; Vleeshouwers, Ward
• Contents: 7.1 Geodesics and Effective Potential of the Schwarzschild Black Hole7.2 Gravitational Energy; 8 Conformal Compactifications and Penrose Diagrams; 8.1 Examples; 8.1.1 Two-Dimensional Flat Space mathbbR2; 8.1.2 (1+3)-Dimensional Minkowski Space mathbbR1, 3; 8.1.3 Two-Dimensional Rindler Space; 9 Penrose Diagrams of Charged and Rotating Black Holes; 9.1 Penrose Diagram for Schwarzschild Black Hole; 9.2 Charged and Rotating Black Holes; 9.2.1 Reissner-Nordström Black Holes (Charged); 10 Rotating Black Holes and Black Hole Mechanics; 10.1 Rotating (Kerr) Black Hole; 10.2 Kerr-Newman Black Hole 10.3 Laws of Black Hole Thermodynamics (Mechanics)10.3.1 Zero'th Law; 11 Black Hole Mechanics and Thermodynamics; 11.1 First Law of Black Hole Mechanics; 11.2 Smarr's Formula; 12 Black Hole Thermodynamics; 12.1 Previously: Zero'th and First Laws; 12.2 Second Law; 12.2.1 Consequences for Coalescing Black Holes; 12.3 Third Law of Black Hole Mechanics; 13 Black Holes and Entropy; 14 Hawking and Unruh Radiation; 14.1 Free Scalar Field in Minkowski Space; 15 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time Backgrounds; 15.1 Last Time: Minkowski Space with Free Scalar Field; 15.2 Unruh Effect 16 Unruh and Hawking Effects16.1 Hawking Radiation; 17 Information Loss Paradox; 17.1 Possible Solutions to the Information Problem; 17.1.1 Black Hole Complementarity (Susskind, Thorlacius, 't Hooft); 17.1.2 Firewall Paradox; 18 Solitons in String Theory; 18.1 Review of Electrodynamics in Minkowski Space; 18.2 Dirac Quantization; 18.3 Supergravity and p-branes; 19 Brane Solutions; 19.1 Explicit Examples of Solitonic Solutions to Type II SUGRA: p-branes; 19.2 D-branes; 19.3 T-duality for the Closed String; 19.4 T-duality for the Open String; 19.5 Massless Spectrum of Open String 19.6 Generalization to Several D-branes19.7 Dynamics of D-branes; 20 Dimensional Reduction and Black Holes; 20.1 Black Holes in String Theory; 20.1.1 Dimensional Reduction of Effective Action; 20.1.2 Dimensional Reduction of p-branes; 20.1.3 Interlude: Tangherlini Black Hole; 20.2 Dimensional Reduction of the D1-brane; 20.3 Solution: p-brane Superposition; 21 Black Holes in String Theory from p/D-branes; 21.1 p-branes; 21.2 D-branes; 21.3 10-Dimensional Gravity; 21.3.1 D1-brane; 21.3.2 D1, D5 -- System; 21.3.3 D1, D5, pp-wave Configuration; 22 Black Hole Microstate Counting
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 523.8875; Black holes (Astronomy); Thermodynamics; SCIENCE / Astronomy; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030109196; 3030109194
• Related ISBNs: 9783030109189; 3030109186
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 30, 2019).
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