Black Holes

by Hehl, F. W.; Kiefer, Claus; Metzler, Ralph J. K.

• ISBN13: 9783540651581
• ISBN10: 3540651586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Carbon Rich Compounds are defined here as carbon skeletons with a carbon-to-hydrogen ration of 1: (less than or equal 1), which includes all-carbon compounds, i.e. carbon allotrope. The current volume complements Topics in Current Chemistry Volume 196, which focussed on polycyclic aromatic compounds, by presenting an overview of the exciting recent results that have been achieved acetylene-based carbon rich structures. Leaders in the field present timely reviews on the synthesis, properties and chemistry of cyclic and macrocyclic oligoacetylenic structures, molecular scaffolding, arylene- and arylenevinylene-based oligomers and polymers, as well as carbon rich compounds from ethynylated Pi-complexes.

Table of Contents

Part I: Overview
Black Holes: A General Introduction	3	(34)
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Part II: Observations, Astrophysics
Evidence for Massive Black Holes in the Nuclei of Active Galaxies from Gamma-Ray Observations	37	(23)
Werner Collmar
Volker Schonfelder
First Conclusive Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way	60	(9)
Andreas Eckart
Reinhard Genzel
Broad Iron Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei: A Possible Test of the Kerr Metric?	69	(11)
Jorn Wilms
Roland Speith
Christopher S. Reynolds
Accretion and Winds Around Galactic and Extragalactic Black Holes	80	(31)
Sandip K. Chakrabarti
Part III: Classical General Relativity
The Membrane Model of Black Holes and Applications	111	(46)
Norbert Straumann
Uniqueness Theorems for Black Hole Space-Times	157	(30)
Markus Heusler
Black Hole Hair: A Review	187	(12)
Dario Nunez
Hernando Quevedo
Daniel Sudarsky
Local Version of the Area Theorem (on a Question by G. 't Hooft)	199	(4)
Domenico Giulini
Black Holes as Exact Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations of Petrov Type D	203	(21)
Alberto Garcia
Alfredo Macias
On the Construction of Time-Symmetric Black Hole Initial Data	224	(20)
Domenico Giulini
Numerical Approach to Black Holes	244	(25)
Edward Seidel
Part IV: Beyond Classical General Relativity
Measurement Theory and General Relativity	269	(16)
Bahram Mashhoon
Boson Stars in the Centre of Galaxies?	285	(4)
Franz E. Schunck
Andrew R. Liddle
Black Holes in Two Dimensions	289	(30)
Yuri N. Obukhov
Friedrich W. Hehl
Part V: Thermodynamics
Black Hole Thermodynamics	319	(20)
Gernot Neugebauer
Gedanken Experiments in Black Hole Thermodynamics	339	(25)
Werner Israel
Internal Structure of Black Holes	364	(21)
Werner Israel
Part VI: Quantum Theory
Quantum Fields near Black Holes	385	(31)
Andreas Wipf
Towards a Full Quantum Theory of Black Holes	416	(35)
Claus Kiefer
Quantum Information on the Black Hole Horizon	451	(30)
Gerard 't Hooft
Part VII: Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion: The Definitive Proofs of the Existence of Black Holes	481	(10)
Werner Collmar
Norbert Straumann
Sandip K. Chakrabarti
Gerard 't Hooft
Edward Seidel
Werner Israel
Exercises	491	(18)
List of Participants of the School	509	(6)
Subject Index	515