Quantum Geometry and Black Holes

Abhay Ashtekar; Kirill Krasnov (Penn State)

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Quantum Geometry and Black Holes

Abhay Ashtekar, Kirill Krasnov (Penn State)

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 17 Apr 1998

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The authors' main claim Non-perturbative quantum general relativity provides a possible framework to analyze issues related to black hole thermodynamics from a fundamental perspective.

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Non-perturbative quantum general relativity provides a possible framework to analyze issues related to black hole thermodynamics from a fundamental perspective. A pedagogical account of the recent developments in this area is given. The emphasis is on the conceptual and structural issues rather than technical subtleties. The article is addressed to post-graduate students and beginning researchers.

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Non-perturbative quantum general relativity provides a possible framework to analyze issues related to black hole thermodynamics from a fundamental perspective. A pedagogical account of the recent developments in this area is given. The emphasis is on the conceptual and structural issues rather than technical subtleties. The article is addressed to post-graduate students and beginning researchers.

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Isolated and dynamical horizons and their applications
gr-qc 2004-07 accept novelty 4.0 of 10

Isolated and dynamical horizons give a quasi-local replacement for event horizons that supports black hole mechanics, an explicit area-growth balance law, and entropy counting, without requiring global stationarity.
Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics
hep-th 2004-09 accept novelty 3.0 of 10

Black holes radiate thermally with entropy one quarter of their horizon area, but the microscopic degrees of freedom behind that entropy remain unidentified, and the coefficient of the logarithmic correction depends o...
The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
gr-qc 1999-12 accept novelty 3.0 of 10

Black holes obey the ordinary laws of thermodynamics with entropy equal to a quarter of the horizon area, and this review maps the evidence, the entropy bounds proposed to protect it, and the open problems.

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