Black Holes and Relativistic Stars

By: Robert M. Wald (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 April 1999 | Edition Number 1

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A comprehensive summary of progress made during the past decade on the theory of black holes and relativistic stars, this collection includes discussion of structure and oscillations of relativistic stars, the use of gravitational radiation detectors, observational evidence for black holes, cosmic censorship, numerical work related to black hole collisions, the internal structure of black holes, black hole thermodynamics, information loss and other issues related to the quantum properties of black holes, and recent developments in the theory of black holes in the context of string theory.
Volume contributors: Valeria Ferrari, John L. Friedman, James B. Hartle, Stephen W. Hawking, Gary T. Horowitz, Werner Israel, Roger Penrose, Martin J. Rees, Rafael D. Sorkin, Saul A. Teukolsky, Kip S. Thorne, and Robert M. Wald.

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Contributors
Preface
Gravitational Waves, Stars and Black Holes
Rotating Relativistic Stars
Probing Black Holes and Relativistic Stars with Gravitational Waves
Astrophysical Evidence for Black Holes
The Question of Cosmic Censorship
Black Hole Collisions, Toroidal Black Holes, and Numerical Relativity
The Internal Structure of Black Holes
Black Holes and Thermodynamics
The Statistical Mechanics of Black Hole Thermodynamics
Generalized Quantum Theory in Evaporating Black Hole Spacetimes
Is Information Lost in Black Holes?
Quantum States of Black Holes
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