Black Holes

Catalog description

Gravitational collapse; Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstorm and Kerr black holes. The initial value problem and the Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity. Penrose diagrams; causal structure; the singularity and area theorems. Black holes thermodynamics; Hawking radiation and the information problem. Quantum gravity as an effective field theory. AdS/CFT; black holes in AdS and dS. The QES prescription and islands.