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Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409024,
  title  = {Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics},
  author = {Don N. Page},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409024},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

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."