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- From: rbsalgad@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Rob Salgado)
- Subject: Questions on: Black-Hole Thermodynamics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.231742.26244@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 23:17:42 EST
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- I am about to carefully study the Bardeen-Carter-Hawking paper
- "The Four Laws of Black Hole Mechanics" (Comm.Math.Phys. 31, 161-170 [1973]).
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- I have a few questions concerning black-hole mechanics and thermodynamics.
- For now, I am only interested in the classical theory
- (i.e: no Hawking radiation, no statistical mechanics).
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- REFERENCES would be greatly appreciated.
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- 1) What is the current status of the uniqueness theorems?
- Is there a concise formulation and proof of a general uniqueness theorem?
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- 2) Is there any work being done on non-stationary black-holes?
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- 3) Are there any natural geometric structures living on the event horizon?
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- 4) What is the status of the cosmic censor conjecture?
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- 5) Is the thermodynamic analogy peculiar to (3+1)-Einstein gravity?
- Compare/contrast to, say, (2+1)-Einstein gravity or a scalar-tensor
- theory.
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- Rob Salgado
- salgado@suhep.phy.syr.edu
-