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1.1 Essentials of General Relativity |
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1 | (5) |
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1.1.1 Equivalence Principle and Geodesies |
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (2) |
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1.2 Brief Review of Black Hole History |
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6 | (9) |
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1.2.1 First Five Decades: Finding Solutions and Classic Analyses |
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6 | (3) |
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1.2.2 Black Holes Through Observations |
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9 | (2) |
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1.2.3 Black Holes as Thermodynamical Systems |
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11 | (4) |
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1.3 Gravitational Collapse in Stars |
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15 | (3) |
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1.3.1 Core Collapse Supernova and Black Hole Formation |
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15 | (1) |
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1.3.2 Estimating the Chandrasekhar Mass |
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16 | (2) |
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1.4 Different Schools of Thought on Black Holes |
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18 | (3) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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1.4.3 Quantum Information School |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (6) |
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2 Black Hole Solutions and Basic Properties |
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27 | (60) |
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2.1 Schwarzschild Metric, Basic Facts, and Analyses |
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27 | (5) |
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2.1.1 Symmetries and Killing Vectors |
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28 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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2.1.3 Singularities, Asymptotic, and Near Horizon Behavior |
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29 | (2) |
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2.1.4 ADM Mass and Angular Momentum |
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31 | (1) |
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2.1.5 Infinite Redshift Surface |
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31 | (1) |
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2.2 Particle Probes and Geodesies |
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32 | (8) |
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34 | (3) |
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2.2.2 Timelike Geodesies and Particle Orbits |
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37 | (3) |
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2.2.3 Eddington-Finkelstein Coordinates |
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40 | (1) |
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2.3 Maximal Extensions and Causal Diagrams |
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40 | (13) |
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2.3.1 Geodesic Completeness and Maximal Analytic Extension |
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41 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Kruskal Coordinates for Schwarzschild Geometry |
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42 | (2) |
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2.3.3 Structure of Lightcones and Preliminary Notion of Horizon |
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44 | (2) |
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2.3.4 Carter-Penrose Causal Diagrams |
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46 | (6) |
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2.3.5 Realistic Black Holes and Wormholes |
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52 | (1) |
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2.4 Einstein-Maxwell Theory and Reissner-Nordstrom Black Holes |
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53 | (3) |
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2.5 Kerr Solution and Its Basic Analysis |
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56 | (7) |
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2.5.1 Basic Properties of Kerr Black Hole |
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59 | (2) |
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2.5.2 Geodesies of Kerr Geometry |
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61 | (2) |
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2.6 Black Holes in (A)dS Backgrounds |
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63 | (4) |
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2.6.1 Schwarzschild-dS Black Holes |
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64 | (1) |
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2.6.2 Schwarzschild-AdS and Topological Black Holes |
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65 | (2) |
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2.7 Plebanski--Demianski Black Holes |
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67 | (2) |
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2.8 Vaidya Metric as Example for Non-stationary Black Holes |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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71 | (16) |
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3 Formal Definitions and Classic Theorems |
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87 | (32) |
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3.1 Mathematical Definitions of Black Holes and Horizons |
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87 | (11) |
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3.1.1 Killing Horizon and Surface Gravity |
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87 | (3) |
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3.1.2 Event Horizon and Mathematical Black Hole Definition |
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90 | (2) |
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3.1.3 Apparent Horizons and Trapped Surfaces |
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92 | (2) |
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3.1.4 Cauchy Horizons and Predictability |
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94 | (2) |
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3.1.5 Other Horizon Definitions |
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96 | (2) |
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3.2 Classic Conjectures and Theorems |
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98 | (10) |
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3.2.1 Raychaudhuri Equation |
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99 | (1) |
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3.2.2 Classical Energy Conditions |
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100 | (2) |
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3.2.3 Singularity Theorems |
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102 | (1) |
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3.2.4 Asymptotic Flatness |
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103 | (2) |
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105 | (1) |
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3.2.6 Uniqueness Theorems |
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106 | (1) |
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3.2.7 Cosmic Censorship Conjecture |
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107 | (1) |
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3.3 Optical Focusing Equation and Area Theorem (2nd Law) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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109 | (10) |
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4 Probing Black Holes, Their Formation and Stability |
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119 | (28) |
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4.1 General Remarks on Black Hole Observations |
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119 | (3) |
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4.2 Black Hole Photon-Sphere, Shadows, and Images |
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122 | (1) |
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4.3 Penrose Process, Super-Radiance, and Black Hole Mining |
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123 | (2) |
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4.4 Gravitational Waves and Black Hole Mergers |
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125 | (4) |
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4.5 Accretion Disk Physics |
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129 | (2) |
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4.6 Black Hole Formation in Shock-Wave Collisions |
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131 | (1) |
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4.7 Black Hole Perturbations and Linear Stability |
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132 | (4) |
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133 | (1) |
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4.7.2 Late-Time Tails and Linearized Stability |
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134 | (1) |
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4.7.3 Perturbative Aspects of Black Hole Binaries |
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135 | (1) |
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4.8 Gravitational Collapse and Non-linear Stability |
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136 | (2) |
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4.8.1 Critical Collapse and Choptuik Exponent |
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136 | (1) |
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4.8.2 On Non-linear Stability of Black Hole Solutions |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (8) |
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5 Black Hole Charges and Thermodynamics |
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147 | (32) |
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5.1 Introduction to Systematic Methods for Charge Computation |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (2) |
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5.3 Solution Phase Space Method |
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150 | (8) |
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5.3.1 Solution Space Is a Phase Space |
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152 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Exact Symmetries and the Associated Charges |
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152 | (6) |
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5.4 Entropy as a Conserved Charge |
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158 | (8) |
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5.4.1 Entropy as a Noether Charge |
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159 | (2) |
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5.4.2 Entropy and Solution Phase Space Method |
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161 | (1) |
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5.4.3 Entropy in Cases Involving Gauge Fields |
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162 | (4) |
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5.5 Four Laws of Black Hole Thermodynamics |
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166 | (8) |
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166 | (2) |
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5.5.2 First Law and Its Derivation |
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168 | (4) |
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5.5.3 Second Law and Its Generalizations |
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172 | (1) |
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5.5.4 Third Law and Extremal Black Holes |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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174 | (5) |
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6 Semiclassical Aspects of Black Holes |
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179 | (42) |
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6.1 Variational Principle |
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179 | (3) |
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6.1.1 Gibbons--Hawking--York Boundary Term |
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180 | (2) |
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6.1.2 Brown--York Stress Tensor |
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182 | (1) |
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6.2 Quantization on Black Hole Backgrounds |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (4) |
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184 | (1) |
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6.3.2 Unruh Temperature, Bogoliubov Transformations |
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185 | (1) |
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6.3.3 Unruh Temperature, Euclidean Field Theory Analysis |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (7) |
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6.4.1 Heuristics of Hawking Effect from Vacuum Fluctuations |
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187 | (1) |
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6.4.2 Hawking Temperature from Euclidean Continuation |
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188 | (1) |
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6.4.3 Hawking Radiation from Ray-Tracing |
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189 | (3) |
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6.4.4 Hawking Radiation from Anomalies |
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192 | (1) |
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193 | (1) |
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194 | (1) |
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6.5 Black Hole Entropy and Alternative Derivations |
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194 | (5) |
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6.5.1 Euclidean Effective Action and Gibbons-Hawking Derivation |
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195 | (3) |
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198 | (1) |
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6.6 Parikh---Wilczek Tunneling |
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199 | (4) |
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6.6.1 Painleve Coordinates |
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200 | (1) |
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6.6.2 Painleve--Parikh--Wilczek Vacuum |
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201 | (2) |
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6.6.3 Discussion of Parikh--Wilczek Tunneling |
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203 | (1) |
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6.7 Black Hole Evaporation |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (4) |
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6.8.1 Membrane Action and Dynamics, Classical Analysis |
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205 | (1) |
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6.8.2 Membrane Action, Semiclassical Analysis |
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206 | (2) |
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6.9 Information Puzzle and Apparent Loss of Unitarity |
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208 | (3) |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (9) |
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7 Gravity and Black Holes in Diverse Dimensions |
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221 | (30) |
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7.1 Why Gravity in Lower Dimensions? |
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221 | (1) |
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7.2 Gravity in Three Dimensions |
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222 | (7) |
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7.2.1 BTZ Black Holes and Banados Geometries |
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223 | (1) |
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7.2.2 Chern--Simons Formulation |
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224 | (1) |
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7.2.3 Canonical Boundary Charges |
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225 | (2) |
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7.2.4 Alternative Boundary Conditions to Brown--Henneaux |
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227 | (1) |
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7.2.5 Beyond AdS3 Einstein Gravity |
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228 | (1) |
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7.3 Gravity in Two Dimensions |
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229 | (6) |
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7.3.1 Jackiw--Teitelboim Model |
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230 | (1) |
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7.3.2 Generic Dilaton Gravity |
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230 | (2) |
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7.3.3 Gauge Theoretic Formulation |
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232 | (1) |
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7.3.4 All Classical Solutions, Locally and Globally |
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233 | (2) |
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7.4 Why Gravity in Higher Dimensions? |
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235 | (1) |
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7.5 Higher-Dimensional Black Hole/Ring/Brane Solutions |
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236 | (8) |
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7.5.1 Tangherlini Solution |
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236 | (1) |
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7.5.2 Myers---Perry Black Holes |
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236 | (2) |
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7.5.3 Five-Dimensional Black Ring Solution |
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238 | (3) |
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7.5.4 Asymptotic AdS Vacuum Black Hole Solutions |
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241 | (1) |
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242 | (2) |
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7.6 Black Holes in Large Number of Dimensions |
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244 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (6) |
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251 | (34) |
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251 | (6) |
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8.1.1 AdS/CFT, the Precise Statement |
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252 | (1) |
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8.1.2 Gravity in Anti-De Sitter Space |
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253 | (1) |
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8.1.3 Holographic Renormalization |
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254 | (2) |
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8.1.4 Holographic Correlation Functions |
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256 | (1) |
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8.2 Holography and Quantum Information |
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257 | (4) |
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8.3 AdS Black Holes and Holography |
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261 | (5) |
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8.3.1 Black Holes as Thermal States |
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262 | (1) |
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8.3.2 Hawking--Page Phase Transition |
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263 | (1) |
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8.3.3 Eternal Black Holes |
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264 | (2) |
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8.4 Asymptotic Symmetries |
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266 | (2) |
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8.5 Soft Hair and Near Horizon Symmetries |
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268 | (3) |
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8.6 Extremal Black Holes and Attractor Mechanism |
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271 | (3) |
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8.6.1 Symmetry Enhancement |
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271 | (1) |
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8.6.2 Attractor Mechanism |
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272 | (2) |
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8.7 Kerr/CFT and Related Topics |
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274 | (2) |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (1) |
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278 | (7) |
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9 Quantum Aspects of Black Holes |
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285 | (32) |
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9.1 Black Holes and Quantum Gravity |
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285 | (5) |
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9.2 Black Hole Complementarity, Firewalls, Page Curve and Islands |
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290 | (2) |
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9.3 Black Holes in String Theory |
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292 | (5) |
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294 | (2) |
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9.3.2 Breckenridge---Myers--Peet--Vafa Solution |
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296 | (1) |
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297 | (3) |
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9.4.1 Microstate Counting for BTZ Black Holes |
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299 | (1) |
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9.4.2 Microstate Counting for D1-D5-P and Breckenridge---Myers--Peet--Vafa Black Hole |
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299 | (1) |
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9.5 Microstate Identification, Fuzzball and Fluffball Proposals |
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300 | (7) |
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9.5.1 Fuzzball Proposal, Microstate Geometries |
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301 | (2) |
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9.5.2 Soft Hair Proposal and Its Fluffball Realization |
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303 | (4) |
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9.6 Information Puzzle and AdS/CFT |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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309 | (8) |
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317 | (10) |
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317 | (2) |
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10.2 Open Conceptual Issues |
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319 | (3) |
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10.3 Observational Prospects |
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322 | (5) |
Appendix A Variational Identities |
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327 | (4) |
Appendix B P-Forms |
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331 | (2) |
Appendix C Cartan Formulation |
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333 | (6) |
Appendix D Teukolsky Equation |
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339 | (4) |
Appendix E Basics of QFT in Curved Spacetime |
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343 | (4) |
Appendix F ADM 3 + 1 Decomposition |
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347 | (4) |
Appendix G Covariant Phase Space Formalism |
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351 | (12) |
Appendix H More on Membrane Paradigm |
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363 | (4) |
Appendix I String Theory Low Energy Effective Actions |
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367 | (4) |
Appendix J Hints to Some Selected Exercises |
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371 | (20) |
References |
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