Black Holes: New Perspectives from Higher Dimensions

However successful classical general relativity is, it faces non-normalizability problems at the quantum mechanical level. Nevertheless, it predicts the existence of black holes, which are thermal objects that are expected to still exist in a satisfactory theory of quantum gravity. This is one of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haddad, Nidal
Other Authors: Emparan García de Salazar, Roberto A.
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96430