Black hole physics : basic concepts and new developments /

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Author / Creator:Frolov, V. P. (Valeriì† Pavlovich)
Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, c1998.
Description:xxi, 770 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Fundamental theories of physics v. 96
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3580917
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Other authors / contributors:Novikov, I. D. (Igorʹ Dmitrievich)
ISBN:0792351452 (acid free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 716-761) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Brief History of Black Hole Physics
  • 2. Spherically Symmetric Black Holes
  • 3. Rotating Black Holes
  • 4. Black hole Perturbations / N. Andersson
  • 5. General Properties of Black Holes
  • 6. Stationary Black Holes
  • 7. Physical Effects in the Gravitational Field of a Black Hole
  • 8. Black Hole Electrodynamics
  • 9. Astrophysics of Black Holes
  • 10. Quantum Particle Creation by Black Holes
  • 11. Quantum Physics of Black Holes
  • 12. Thermodynamics of Black Holes
  • 13. Black Holes in Unified Theories
  • 14. The Interior of a Black Hole
  • 15. Ultimate Fate of Black and White Holes
  • 16. Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Machines
  • A. Mathematical Formulas
  • B. Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes
  • C. Rindler Frame in Minkowski Spacetime
  • D. Kerr-Newman Geometry
  • E. Newman-Penrose Formalism
  • F. Wave Fields in a Curved Spacetime
  • G. Wave Fields in the Kerr Metric
  • H. Quantum Fields in Kerr Spacetime
  • I. Quantum Oscillator.