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Quantum Mechanics of Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

These lectures give a pedagogical review of dilaton gravity, Hawking radiation, the black hole information problem, and black hole pair creation. (Lectures presented at the 1994 Trieste Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology)

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9412138,
  title  = {Quantum Mechanics of Black Holes},
  author = {Steven B. Giddings},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9412138},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

52 pages (harvmac l mode); also uses tables.tex