TY  - GEN
AU  - Susskind, Leonard
AU  - Lindesay, James
TI  - Introduction to Black holes information and the string theory revolution : the Holographic Universe
SN  - 9789812561312
U1  - 523.8875 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
KW  - House construction
KW  - Black holes (Astronomy)
KW  - String models
N1  - Contents
Preface  vii
Part 1: Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics  1
1. The Schwarzschild Black Hole  3
1.1 Schwarzschild Coordinates  3
1.2 Tortoise Coordinates  7
1.3 Near Horizon Coordinates (Rindler space)  8
1.4 Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinates  10
1.5 Penrose Diagrams  14
1.6 Formation of a Black Hole  15
1.7 Fidos and Frefos and the Equivalence Principle  21
2. Scalar Wave Equation in a Schwarzschild Background  25
2.1 Near the Horizon  28
3. Quantum Fields in Rindler Space  31
3.1 Classical Fields  31
3.2 Entanglement  32
3.3 Review of the Density Matrix  34
3.4 The Unruh Density Matrix  36
3.5 Proper Temperature  39
4. Entropy of the Free Quantum Field in Rindler Space  43
4.1 Black Hole Evaporation  48
5. Thermodynamics of Black Holes  51
6. Charged Black Holes  55
7. The Stretched Horizon  61
8. The Laws of Nature  69
8.1 Information Conservation  69
8.2 Entanglement Entropy  71
8.3 Equivalence Principle  77
8.4 Quantum Xerox Principle  79
9. The Puzzle of Information Conservation in Black Hole Environments  81
9.1 A Brick Wall?  84
9.2 Black Hole Complementarity  85
9.3 Baryon Number Violation  89
10. Horizons and the UV/IR Connection  95
Part 2: Entropy Bounds and Holography  99
11. Entropy Bounds  101
11.1 Maximum Entropy   101
11.2 Entropy on Light-like Surfaces  105
11.3 Friedman-Robertson-Walker Geometry  110
11.4 Bousso's Generalization  114
11.5 de Sitter Cosmology  119
11.6 Anti de Sitter Space  123
12. The Holographic Principle and Anti de Sitter Space  127
12.1 The Holographic Principle  127
12.2 AdS Space  128
12.3 Holography in AdS Space  130
12.4 The AdS/CFT Correspondence  133
12.5 The Infrared Ultraviolet Connection  135
12.6 Counting Degrees of Freedom  138
13. Black Holes in a Box  141
13.1 The Horizon  144
13.2 Information and the AdS Black Hole  144
Part 3: Black Holes and Strings  149
14. Strings  151
14.1 Light Cone Quantum Mechanics  153
14.2 Light Cone String Theory  156
14.3 Interactions  159
14.4 Longitudinal Motion  161
15. Entropy of Strings and Black Holes  165
Conclusions  175
Bibliography  179
Index  181
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