Black Holes in General Relativity
As a prelude to our study of quantum black holes, in this chapter we briefly review some of the key features of black holes in general relativity. We focus on specific examples of black hole metrics in four and higher space-time dimensions, which will be
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Xavier Calmet · Bernard Carr Elizabeth Winstanley
Quantum Black Holes
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Quantum Black Holes
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Xavier Calmet Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sussex Brighton UK
Elizabeth Winstanley School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sheffield Sheffield UK
Bernard Carr Department of Physics and Astronomy Queen Mary University of London London UK
ISSN 2191-5423 ISBN 978-3-642-38938-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-38939-9
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