Black holes and quantum mechanics

✍ Scribed by G. 't Hooft

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 439 KB
• Volume: 203-204
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2010.08.008

✦ Synopsis

• r 2 dΩ 2 ,

(1) where spherical coordinates t, r, θ, ϕ were chosen, dΩ 2 def = dθ 2 + sin 2 θ dϕ 2 , and the radial coordinate r was chosen such that the angular component in this expression coincides with that of empty space-time. Furthermore, we absorbed Newton's constant G N into the definition of the mass: M def = G N m BH , or rather, units were chosen such that G N = 1 . In a slightly different notation, this solution to Einstein's equations was first written down by K. Schwarzschild [1].