Erice Lectures on Black Holes and Attractors
Abstract
These lectures give an elementary introduction to the subject of four dimensional black holes (BHs) in supergravity and the Attractor Mechanism in the extremal case. Some thermodynamical properties are discussed and some relevant formulae for the critical points of the BH effective potential are given. The case of Maxwell-Einstein-axion-dilaton (super)gravity is discussed in detail. Analogies among BH entropy and multipartite entanglement of qubits in quantum information theory, as well moduli spaces of extremal BH attractors, are also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.0805.2498,
title = {Erice Lectures on Black Holes and Attractors},
author = {S. Ferrara and K. Hayakawa and A. Marrani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2498},
year = {2009}
}
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1+65 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. Contribution to the Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, 45th Course: Search for the "Totally Unexpected" in the LHC era, Erice, Italy, 29 August - 7 September 2007 (Directors: G. 't Hooft - A. Zichichi). v2: typos fixed in Eqs. (4.21), (4.24) and (4.25)