Evolution of Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime and the Firewall Controversy

• Main Author: Ong, Yen Chin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Gravitation.; Astrophysics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

This thesis focuses on the recent firewall controversy surrounding evaporating black holes, and shows that in the best understood example concerning electrically charged black holes with a flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, the firewall does not arise. The firewall, which surround...

Table of Contents:

• A Century of Black Hole Physics
• The Mathematical Discovery of Black Holes
• The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
• Positive Mass Theorem, Stability & Phase Transition
• Defining Mass in General Relativity
• Positive Mass and Stability
• The Euclidean Action
• Hiscock and Weems Analysis of Charged Black Holes
• Reissner-Nordström Black Hole Revisited
• The Hiscock and Weems Model
• Why Hawking Radiation Cannot Be Decoded
• Information Decoding vs. the Lifetimes of Charged Black Holes
• Evaporating Charged AdS Black Holes
• Do Hyper-Entropic Objects Exist in Quantum Gravity?
• A Monster is Born
• Monsters in String Theory.