Hawking radiation and black hole thermodynamics

Sep, 2004
30 pages
Published in:
  • New J.Phys. 7 (2005) 203
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Report number:
  • ALBERTA-THY-18-04

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Abstract: (arXiv)
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.
Note:
  • 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."
  • review
  • radiation: Hawking
  • black hole
  • thermodynamics