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Black holes in higher dimensions / [edited by] Gary T. Horowitz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: xiii, 422 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781107013452
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 523.8875 23 H816
Contents:
List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I. Introduction: 1. Black holes in four dimensions Gary T. Horowitz -- Part II. Five Dimensional Kaluza-Klein Theory: 2. The Gregory-Laflamme instability Ruth Gregory -- 3. Final state of Gregory-Laflamme instability Luis Lehner and Frans Pretorius -- 4. General black holes in Kaluza-Klein theory Gary Horowitz and Toby Wiseman -- Part III. Higher Dimensional Solutions: 5. Myers-Perry black holes Rob Myers -- 6. Black rings Roberto Emparan and Harvey Reall -- Part IV. General Properties: 7. Constraints on the topology of higher dimensional black holes Greg Galloway -- 8. Blackfolds Roberto Emparan -- 9. Algebraically special solutions in higher dimensions Harvey S. Reall -- 10. Numerical construction of static and stationary black holes Toby Wiseman -- Part V. Advanced Topics: 11. Black holes and branes in supergravity Don Marolf -- 12. The gauge/gravity duality Juan Maldacena -- 13. The fluid/gravity correspondence Veronika Hubeny, Mukund Rangamani and Shiraz Minwalla -- 14. Horizons, holography and condensed matter Sean Hartnoll -- Index.
Summary: "Black holes are one of the most remarkable predictions of Einstein's general relativity. Now widely accepted by the scientific community, most work has focussed on black holes in our familiar four spacetime dimensions. But in recent years, ideas in brane-world cosmology, string theory, and gauge/gravity duality have all motivated a study of black holes in more than four dimensions, with surprising results. In higher dimensions, black holes exist with exotic shapes and unusual dynamics. Edited by leading expert Gary Horowitz, this exciting book is the first devoted to this new field. The major discoveries are explained by the people who made them: RobMyers describes theMyers-Perry solutions that represent rotating black holes in higher dimensions; Ruth Gregory describes the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings; and Juan Maldacena introduces gauge/gravity duality, the remarkable correspondence that relates a gravitational theory to nongravitational physics. There are two additional chapters on this duality describing how black holes can be used to describe relativistic fluids and aspects of condensed matter physics"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors --
Preface --
Part I. Introduction:
1. Black holes in four dimensions Gary T. Horowitz --

Part II. Five Dimensional Kaluza-Klein Theory:
2. The Gregory-Laflamme instability Ruth Gregory --
3. Final state of Gregory-Laflamme instability Luis Lehner and
Frans Pretorius --
4. General black holes in Kaluza-Klein theory Gary Horowitz
and Toby Wiseman --

Part III. Higher Dimensional Solutions:
5. Myers-Perry black holes Rob Myers --
6. Black rings Roberto Emparan and Harvey Reall --

Part IV. General Properties:
7. Constraints on the topology of higher dimensional black
holes Greg Galloway --
8. Blackfolds Roberto Emparan --
9. Algebraically special solutions in higher dimensions Harvey S.
Reall --
10. Numerical construction of static and stationary black holes
Toby Wiseman --

Part V. Advanced Topics:
11. Black holes and branes in supergravity Don Marolf --
12. The gauge/gravity duality Juan Maldacena --
13. The fluid/gravity correspondence Veronika Hubeny, Mukund Rangamani and Shiraz Minwalla --
14. Horizons, holography and condensed matter Sean Hartnoll --
Index.

"Black holes are one of the most remarkable predictions of Einstein's general relativity. Now widely accepted by the scientific community, most work has focussed on black holes in our familiar four spacetime dimensions. But in recent years, ideas in brane-world cosmology, string theory, and gauge/gravity duality have all motivated a study of black holes in more than four dimensions, with surprising results. In higher dimensions, black holes exist with exotic shapes and unusual dynamics. Edited by leading expert Gary Horowitz, this exciting book is the first devoted to this new field. The major discoveries are explained by the people who made them: RobMyers describes theMyers-Perry solutions that represent rotating black holes in higher dimensions; Ruth Gregory describes the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings; and Juan Maldacena introduces gauge/gravity duality, the remarkable correspondence that relates a gravitational theory to nongravitational physics. There are two additional chapters on this duality describing how black holes can be used to describe relativistic fluids and aspects of condensed matter physics"--

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