Introduction to Black Hole Physics
Valeri P. Frolov and Andrei Zelnikov
Abstract
This book is a thorough and up‐to‐date introduction to black hole physics. It provides a modern and unified overview of all their aspects, physical, mathematical, astrophysical, classical, and quantum. Black holes are the most intriguing objects in the Universe. For many years they have been considered just as interesting solutions of the General Relativity with a number of amusing mathematical properties. But now, after discovery of astrophysical black holes, the Einstein gravity has become a practical tool for their study. In this book we present the theory of black holes in the form which m ... More
This book is a thorough and up‐to‐date introduction to black hole physics. It provides a modern and unified overview of all their aspects, physical, mathematical, astrophysical, classical, and quantum. Black holes are the most intriguing objects in the Universe. For many years they have been considered just as interesting solutions of the General Relativity with a number of amusing mathematical properties. But now, after discovery of astrophysical black holes, the Einstein gravity has become a practical tool for their study. In this book we present the theory of black holes in the form which might be useful for students and young scientists. This is a self‐contained textbook. It includes pedagogically presented `standard' material on black holes and also quite new subjects such as black holes in spacetimes with large extra dimensions and a role of hidden symmetries in black hole physics.
Keywords:
black holes,
gravity,
astrophysics,
Hawking radiation,
hidden symmetry,
extra dimensions
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199692293 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199692293.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Valeri P. Frolov, author
Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Andrei Zelnikov, author
Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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