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Mechanics and Equilibrium Geometry of Black Holes, Membranes, and Strings

Brandon Carter

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0411259

Abstract

This course is designed to give a mathematically coherent introduction to the classical thory of black holes and also of strings and membranes (which are like the horizon of a black hole in being examples of physical systems based on a dynamically evolving world sheet) giving particular attention given to the study of the geometry of their equilibrium states.

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