Inhaltsbereich
Black Holes and their Thermodynamics – Overview
- Overview
- Exercises
Lecturer
About the lecture
Time and place
Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 (c.t.), Friday 10:00 - 12:00 (c.t.), via ZOOMNews
A ZOOM link will be sent to the registered participants via email.
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Topics
- Introduction to GR
- The Schwarzschild Solution
- Black Hole Thermodynamics and Black Hole Entropy
- Hawking Radiation - Information puzzle and no hair theorem
- Charged and Spinning Black Holes
- Branes in Supergravity and String Theory - the Entropy of BPS Black Holes in String Theory (Strominger, Vafa)
- Asymptotic Symmetries in GR and possible new solution towards black hole charges
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Literature
Text books and Notes on General Relativity
- Misner, Thorne, Wheeler: Gravitation
- V. Mukhanov, A. Winitzki: Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity
- N. Birrell, P. Davies: Quantum Fields in Curved Space
- S. Caroll: Lecture Notes on General Relativity
https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019 - M.Blau: Lecture Notes on General Relativity
http://www.blau.itp.unibe.ch/newlecturesGR.pdf
Notes on Black Holes:
- P. Townsend: Black Holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9707012 - T. Mohaupt: Black Holes in Supergravity and String Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0004098 - S. Mathur: The Quantum Structure of Black Holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510180 - A. Strominger: Lectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05448 - R. Borsato, S. Vandoren: Student Book on Black Holes
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~vando101/BH.pdf - D. Lüst, W. Vleeshouwers: Black Hole Information and Thermodynamics (Springer)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.01403.pdf