Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics

2004/09/30 by Don N. Page · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th #astro-ph #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/203

published as New J.Phys.7:203,2005 · 46 pages, LaTeX, review article solicited for a celebratory Focus Issue on Relativity, ``Spacetime 100 Years Later,'' to be published in New Journal of Physics. A new paragraph was added after Eq. (2), and a new long Section 5 on "Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy."

arxiv created 2004/12/31 · arxiv updated 2014/11/18

Abstract

An inexhaustive review of Hawking radiation and black hole thermodynamics is given, focusing especially upon some of the historical aspects as seen from the biased viewpoint of a minor player in the field on and off for the past thirty years.

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