Black Hole Information and Thermodynamics

• Main Authors: Lüst, Dieter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Vleeshouwers, Ward (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Thermodynamics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.
• Physical Description: X, 116 p. 14 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030109196
• ISSN: 2191-5423
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10919-6

Based on Prof. Lüst's Masters course at the University of Munich, this book begins with a short introduction to general relativity. It then presents black hole solutions, and discusses Penrose diagrams, black hole thermodynamics and entropy, the Unruh effect, Hawking radiation, the black hole information problem, black holes in supergravity and string theory, the black hole microstate counting in string theory, asymptotic symmetries in general relativity, and a particular quantum model for black holes. The book offers an up-to-date summary of all the pertinent questions in this highly active field of physics, and is ideal reading for graduate students and young researchers.