1995/01/13 by Strominger, Andy · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Medicine · #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Biofield Effects and Biophysics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9501071
Contents: 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