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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Written by foremost experts, this short book gives a clear description of the physics of quantum black holes. The reader will learn about quantum black holes in four and higher dimensions, primordial black holes, the production of black holes in high energy particle collisions, Hawking radiation, black holes in models of low scale quantum gravity and quantum gravitational aspects of black holes.
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“A small and great book! … the renowned authors – top experts in the field – give a fulminant review on the fascinating topic of Quantum Black Holes. … The book covers all these aspects in a well written and up-to-date way, is very understandable, and simultaneously at a high scientific level. It includes excellent illustrations and tables. Nobody interested in this fascinating topic, and not only specialized experts, should miss this book.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, May, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Xavier Calmet
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
Bernard Carr
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Winstanley
About the authors
Xavier Calmet is a Reader in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Sussex. His various research interests are in theoretical physics. He currently works on the interplay between particle physics and gravity which can be probed using black holes. He is the leader of the working group on quantum black holes of the European COST action "black holes in a violent universe".
Bernard Carr is Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London. His area of research is cosmology and relativistic astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe, black holes, dark matter and the anthropic principle. In 1984 he was awarded the Adams Prize by the University of Cambridge and In 2007 he edited a book entitled "Universe or Multiverse?".
Elizabeth Winstanley is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests focus on black holes in general relativity and quantum field theory in curved space-time. She is a past chair of the Gravitational Physics Group of the Institute of Physics in the UK and was the 2010 Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics Lecturer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Black Holes
Authors: Xavier Calmet, Bernard Carr, Elizabeth Winstanley
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38939-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38938-2Published: 06 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38939-9Published: 22 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-5423
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5431
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 104
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Cosmology