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1 Black Holes: Big Picture |
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1.1 Gravity and Black Holes |
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1.2 Brief History of Black Holes |
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8 | (4) |
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1.3 `Dark Stars' vs. Black Holes |
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12 | (3) |
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1.4 Final State of Stellar Evolution |
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15 | (4) |
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1.5 Equilibrium of Gravitating Systems |
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19 | (3) |
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1.6 Important Notions of Astrophysics |
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22 | (4) |
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1.7 Black Holes in Astrophysics and Cosmology |
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26 | (3) |
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1.8 Stellar-Mass Black Holes |
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29 | (5) |
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1.9 Supermassive Black Holes |
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34 | (6) |
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1.10 Primordial Black Holes |
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40 | (1) |
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1.11 Black Holes in Theoretical Physics |
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41 | (3) |
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1.12 Black Holes and Extra Dimensions |
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44 | (3) |
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2 Physics in a Uniformly Accelerated Frame |
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47 | (20) |
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2.1 Minkowski Spacetime and Its Symmetries |
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47 | (3) |
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2.2 Minkowski Spacetime in Curved Coordinates |
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50 | (7) |
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2.3 Uniformly Accelerated Reference Frame |
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57 | (2) |
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2.4 Homogeneous Gravitational Field |
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59 | (4) |
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63 | (2) |
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2.6 Wick's Rotation in the Rindler Space |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (42) |
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3.1 Differential Manifold. Tensors |
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67 | (7) |
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74 | (5) |
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79 | (2) |
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3.4 Lie and Fermi Transport |
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81 | (3) |
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84 | (6) |
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3.6 Parallel Transport of a Vector |
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90 | (7) |
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97 | (5) |
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102 | (4) |
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106 | (3) |
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4 Particle Motion in Curved Spacetime |
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109 | (18) |
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109 | (5) |
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114 | (6) |
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4.3 Complete Integrability |
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120 | (7) |
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127 | (35) |
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5.1 Einstein-Hilbert Action |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (6) |
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135 | (7) |
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5.4 Gravitational radiation |
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142 | (7) |
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5.5 Gravity in Higher-Dimensions |
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149 | (13) |
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6 Spherically Symmetric Black Holes |
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162 | (23) |
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6.1 Spherically Symmetric Gravitational Field |
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162 | (4) |
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6.2 Schwarzschild-de Sitter Metric |
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166 | (6) |
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6.3 Global Structure of the Schwarzschild Spacetime |
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172 | (6) |
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178 | (2) |
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6.5 Painleve-Gullstrand Metric |
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180 | (1) |
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6.6 Eddington-Finkelstein Coordinates |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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6.8 Higher-Dimensional Spherical Black Holes |
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182 | (3) |
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7 Particles and Light Motion in Schwarzschild Spacetime |
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185 | (57) |
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185 | (3) |
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7.2 Particle Trajectories |
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188 | (8) |
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196 | (4) |
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200 | (11) |
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7.5 Ray-Tracing in Schwarzschild Spacetime |
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211 | (4) |
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7.6 Black Hole as a Gravitational Lens |
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215 | (8) |
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7.7 Radiation from an Object Moving Around the Black Hole |
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223 | (7) |
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7.8 Equations of Motion in `Tilted' Spherical Coordinates |
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230 | (1) |
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7.9 Magnetized Schwarzschild Black Hole |
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230 | (6) |
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7.10 Particle and Light Motion Near Higher-Dimensional Black Holes |
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236 | (6) |
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242 | (56) |
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242 | (4) |
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246 | (11) |
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8.3 Particle and Light Motion in Equatorial Plane |
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257 | (11) |
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8.4 Spinning up the Black Hole |
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268 | (4) |
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8.5 Geodesies in Kerr Spacetime: General Case |
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272 | (4) |
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276 | (10) |
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8.7 Hidden Symmetries of Kerr Spacetime |
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286 | (3) |
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8.8 Energy Extraction from a Rotating Black Hole |
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289 | (4) |
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8.9 Black Holes in External Magnetic Field |
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293 | (5) |
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9 Classical and Quantum Fields near Black Holes |
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298 | (49) |
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298 | (1) |
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9.2 Static Field in the Schwarzschild Spacetime |
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299 | (3) |
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9.3 Dimensional Reduction |
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302 | (5) |
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307 | (7) |
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9.5 Massless Fields in the Kerr Spacetime |
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314 | (1) |
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9.6 Black Hole in a Thermal Bath |
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315 | (5) |
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320 | (5) |
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9.8 Quantum Fields in the Rindler Spacetime |
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325 | (11) |
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9.9 Black Hole Thermodynamics |
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336 | (4) |
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9.10 Higher-Dimensional Generalizations |
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340 | (7) |
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10 Black Holes and All That Jazz |
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347 | (61) |
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10.1 Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes |
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347 | (8) |
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10.2 Black Holes: General Definition and Properties |
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355 | (7) |
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10.3 Black Holes and Search for Gravitational Waves |
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362 | (8) |
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10.4 `Black Holes' in Laboratories |
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370 | (6) |
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10.5 Black Holes in Colliders? |
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376 | (6) |
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10.6 Higher-Dimensional Black Holes |
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382 | (11) |
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393 | (6) |
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10.8 `Time Machine' Problem |
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399 | (9) |
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Appendix A Fundamental Constants and Units |
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408 | (2) |
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A.1 Fundamental Constants |
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408 | (1) |
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408 | (1) |
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408 | (1) |
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A.4 Various Scales of Masses |
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409 | (1) |
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A.5 Milky Way Galaxy Observational Data |
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409 | (1) |
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A.6 Universe Observational Data |
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409 | (1) |
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A.7 Dimensionless Entropy (S/kB) |
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409 | (1) |
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Appendix B Gauss-Codazzi Equations |
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410 | (2) |
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B.1 Gauss-Codazzi Equations |
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410 | (1) |
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B.2 Static Surface in a Static Spacetime |
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411 | (1) |
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Appendix C Conformal Transformations |
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412 | (2) |
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Appendix D Hidden Symmetries |
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414 | (17) |
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D.1 Conformal Killing Tensor |
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414 | (1) |
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414 | (3) |
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D.3 Primary Killing Vector |
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417 | (1) |
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D.4 Properties of the Primary Killing Vector |
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418 | (1) |
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D.5 Secondary Killing Vector |
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418 | (2) |
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420 | (2) |
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D.7 Canonical Form of Metric |
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422 | (3) |
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D.8 Separation of Variables in Canonical Coordinates |
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425 | (1) |
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D.9 Higher-Dimensional Generalizations |
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425 | (3) |
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D.10 Higher-Dimensional Kerr-NUT-(A)dS Metric |
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428 | (3) |
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Appendix E Boundary Term for the Einstein-Hilbert Action |
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431 | (4) |
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E.1 An Example Illustrating the Problem |
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431 | (1) |
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E.2 Boundary Term for the Einstein-Hilbert Action |
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432 | (2) |
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E.3 Boundary Term for the Euclidean Einstein-Hilbert Action |
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434 | (1) |
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Appendix F Quantum Fields |
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435 | (28) |
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435 | (2) |
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437 | (5) |
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F.3 Quantum Field in Flat Spacetime |
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442 | (12) |
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F.4 Quantum Theory in (1+1)-Spacetime |
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454 | (9) |
References |
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463 | (14) |
Index |
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