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- From: sal7@ellis.uchicago.edu (Rob Salgado)
- Subject: Questions concerning Black-Hole Thermodynamics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.185602.9810@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:56:02 GMT
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- I am about to study the Bardeen-Carter-Hawking paper on
- "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 and no statistical mechanics).
- 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 analogy to equilibrium thermodynamics peculiar to Einstein gravity
- in (3+1)-spacetime? Compare/contrast with, say, (2+1)-gravity or a
- scalar-tensor theory.
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- Rob Salgado sal7@ellis.uchicago.edu
- salgado@suhep.phy.syr.edu (preferred)
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