S.D. Mathur (auth.), Eleftherios Papantonopoulos (eds.)3540884599
Black Holes are still considered to be among the most mysterious and fascinating objects in our universe. Awaiting the era of gravitational astronomy, much progress in theoretical modeling and understanding of classical and quantum black holes has already been achieved.
The present volume serves as a tutorial, high-level guided tour through the black-hole landscape: information paradox and blackhole thermodynamics, numerical simulations of black-hole formation and collisions, braneworld scenarios and stability of black holes with respect to perturbations are treated in great detail, as is their possible occurrence at the LHC.
An outgrowth of a topical and tutorial summer school, this extensive set of carefully edited notes has been set up with the aim of constituting an advanced-level, multi-authored textbook which meets the needs of both postgraduate students and young researchers in the fields of modern cosmology, astrophysics and (quantum) field theory.
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-XVI
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
What Exactly is the Information Paradox?….Pages 3-48
Classical Yang–Mills Black Hole Hair in Anti-de Sitter Space….Pages 49-87
Black Hole Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics….Pages 89-123
Colliding Black Holes and Gravitational Waves….Pages 125-175
Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Formation….Pages 177-208
Front Matter….Pages 209-209
Black Holes in Higher-Dimensional Gravity….Pages 211-258
Braneworld Black Holes….Pages 259-298
Higher Order Gravity Theories and Their Black Hole Solutions….Pages 299-346
Gravitational Waves from Braneworld Black Holes….Pages 347-386
Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider….Pages 387-423
Front Matter….Pages 425-425
Perturbations and Stability of Higher-Dimensional Black Holes….Pages 427-470
Analytic Calculation of Quasi-Normal Modes….Pages 471-508
Back Matter….Pages 509-511
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