Black holes and the structure of the universe / editors, Claudio Teitelboim, Jorge Zanelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teitelboim, Claudio.

Zanelli, Jorge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black holes (Astronomy)--Congresses.

Black holes (Astronomy).

Cosmology--Congresses.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers explore developments and advances in the field of astrophysics.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Theories and Topological Black Holes; 1 The topological black hole; 2 Chern-Simons theory; 3 Five dimensional Chern-Simons Gravity; Acknowledgments; References; Wormholes on the World Volume: Born-Infeld Particles and Dirichlet p-Branes; 1 Introduction; 2 The Dirac-Born-Infeld action; 3 BIons; 4 Catenoids; 5 Charged Catenoids; 6 The BPS solution; 7 Electric-magnetic duality and the inclusion of magnetic fields; 8 Abelian Bogomol'nyi Monopoles; 9 Dimensional Reduction and SUSY; 10 Calibrated geometries; 11 Non-Abelian Born-Infeld

12 ConclusionReferences; Evaporation of Primordial Black Holes; 1 Introduction; 2 Initial Conditions; 3 The No Boundary Proposal; 4 Inflation and the No Boundary Proposal; 5 Wave Function in the Momentum Representation; 6 De-Sitter Model; 7 Primordial Black Holes; 8 Schwarzschild-de-Sitter; 9 Reduced Classical Action for Spherically Symmetric Fields; 10 Effective Action of Scalars Coupled to o; 11 Equations of Motion; 12 Conclusion; References; Fermion Models and Chern-Simons Theories; 1 Introduction; 2 Bosonization in 2 + 1 dimensions; 3 The abelian case in d = 3; 4 Interacting models

5 Current algebra6 The non-Abelian case in d = 3; 7 2 + 1 Fermions at Finite Temperature; Acknowledgements; References; Uniqueness of D = 11 Supergravity; References; Probing Black Holes and Relativistic Stars with Gravitational Waves; 1 Introduction; 2 Gravitational Waves; 3 Gravitational Wave Detectors in the High and Low Frequency Bands; 4 Stellar Core Collapse: The Births of Neutron Stars and Black Holes; 5 Pulsars: Spinning Neutron Stars; 6 Neutron-Star Binaries and Their Coalescence; 7 Black Hole Binaries; 8 Payoffs from Binary Coalescence Observations; 9 Conclusion; Acknowledgments

ReferencesChern-Simons Supergravities with Off-Shell Local Superalgebras; 1 Introduction; 2 Supergravity; 3 Lanczos-Lovelock Gravity; 4 AdS Gauge Gravity; 5 Exact Solutions; 6 Chern-Simons Supergravities; 7 Discussion; Acknowledgments; References

Notes:

The meeting was held in August 1997--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789812793270

9812793275