Les Houches Lectures on Black Holes

dc.creatorStrominger, Andy
dc.date1995-01-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:32:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:32:34Z
dc.descriptionContents: 1. Introduction 2. Causal Structure and Penrose Diagrams: Minkowski Space; 1+1 Dimensional Minkowski Space; Schwarzchild Black Holes; Gravitational Collapse and the Vaidya Spacetimes; Event Horizons, Apparent Horizons, and Trapped Surfaces 3. Black Holes in Two Dimensions: General Relativity in the $S$-Wave Sector; Classical Dilaton Gravity; Eternal Black Holes; Coupling to Conformal Matter; Hawking Radiation and the Trace Anomaly; The Quantum State; Including the Back-Reaction; The Large $N$ Approximation; Conformal Invariance and Generalizations of Dilaton Gravity; The Soluble $RST$ Model 4. The Information Puzzle in Four Dimensions: Can the Information Come Out Before the Endpoint?; Low-Energy Effective Descriptions of the Planckian Endpoint; Remnants?; Information Destruction?; The Superposition Principle; Energy Conservation The New Rules; Superselection Sectors, $α$-parameters, and the Restoration of Unitarity 5. Conclusions and Outlook
dc.description70 pages, 18 figures. Lectures presented at the 1994 Les Houches Summer School ``Fluctuating Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory.'' (also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/lh94/ )
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9501071
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9501071
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/98941
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleLes Houches Lectures on Black Holes
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