Black hole thermodynamics

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2005-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502195v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

44 pages, 12 figures, v2: reference added

Scientific paper

These notes introduce basic aspects of black hole thermodynamics. I review the classical laws of black hole mechanics, give a brief introduction to the essential concepts of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, and derive the Unruh and Hawking effects. I conclude with a discussion of entropy from the Euclidean path integral point of view and in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Originally delivered as a set of lectures at the PIMS summer school ``Strings, Gravity and Cosmology'' in August 2004.

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