Author : Claudio Teitelboim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814518999
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Book Synopsis The Black Hole, 25 Years After by : Claudio Teitelboim
Download or read book The Black Hole, 25 Years After written by Claudio Teitelboim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a most important review volume providing a summary of black hole physics in the last 25 years. It contains a series of lectures presented to celebrate John Archibald Wheeler's invention of the term “black hole” a quarter of a century ago. In 11 lucid articles, a distinguished group of world experts discuss current issues in black hole physics, ranging from epistemological considerations to recent developments connecting black hole thermodynamics and string theory. Contents:The Path Integral Formulation of Gravitational Thermodynamics (J D Brown & J W York)Self-Dual Solutions of 2+1 Einstein Gravity with a Negative Cosmological Constant (O Coussaert & M Henneaux)String Black Holes (J Ellis)The Vacuum Fluctuation Problem in Black Hole Radiance (F Englert)“Absurd and Ridiculous”: The Collapse of Solidity (W Israel)Descent into the Maelstrom: The Black Hole Interior (W Israel)Some Speculations About Black Hole Entropy in String Theory (L Susskind)Action and Entropy of Black Holes (C Teitelboim)Horizon Operator Approach to Black Hole Quantization (G 't Hooft)The Black Hole, 25 Years Later (J A Wheeler)Lectures on Black Hole Quantum Mechanics: Lectures 1 & 2 (F Wilczek)Lectures on Black Hole Quantum Mechanics: Lectures 3 & 4 (F Wilczek) Readership: Astrophysicists. Keywords:Black Hole;Thermodynamics;String Theory;Astrophysics;Quantum Mechanics