Loop Quantum Gravity and Black Hole Physics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-11-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
I summarize the basic ideas and formalism of loop quantum gravity. I illustrate the results on the discrete aspects of quantum geometry and two applications of these results to black hole physics. In particular, I discuss in detail a derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the entropy of a black hole from first principles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9608032,
title = {Loop Quantum Gravity and Black Hole Physics},
author = {Carlo Rovelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9608032},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Lecture at the Journees Relativistes, Ascona 1996. LaTeX, 1 PostScript figure (a.eps), uses epsfig.sty