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."