Contributing Authors.- Preface.- The Thermodynamics of Black Holes, Robert M. Wald.- Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect, Ted Jacobson.- Large N field theories and gravity, Juan Maldacena.- Lectures on D-branes, tachyon condensation, and string field theory, Washington Taylor.- Billiard dynamics, Thibault Damour, Marc Henneaux, Hermann Nicolai.- Tall tales from de Sitter space, Robert C. Myers.- Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity, Rafael D. Sorkin.- Thermal Decay of the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes, Andr es Gomberoff, Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim, Frank Wilczek.
EAN/ISBN : 9780387249926
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Springer US
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Gomberoff, Andres - Marolf, Donald