Some aspects of the rotating three-dimensional Einstein-Anti-de-Sitter black hole solution, constructed recently by Banados, Teitelboim and Zanelli are discussed. It is shown explicitly that this black hole represents the most general black hole type solution of the Einstein-Anti-de-Sitter theory. The interpretation of one of the integrals of motion as the spin is discussed. Its physics relies ...

The universality of Martinez’s conjecture, which states that quasilocal energy of a black hole at the outer horizon reduces to twice its irreducible mass, or equivalently, to √ A/4π (A is the area of the black hole), is investigated by calculating Brown-York quasilocal energies for stationary black holes in heterotic string theory, such as for the stationary Kaluza-Klein black hole, the rotatin...

The universality of Martinez’s conjecture, which states that the quasilocal energy of a black hole at the outer horizon reduces to twice its irreducible mass, or equivalently, to √ A/4π (A is the area of the black hole), is investigated by calculating Brown-York quasilocal energies for stationary black holes in heterotic string theory, e. g., for the stationary Kaluza-Klein black hole, the rota...

Usually quantum theory is formulated in terms of the evolution of states through spacelike surfaces. However, a generalization of this formulation is needed for field theory in spacetimes not foliable by spacelike surfaces, or in quantum gravity where geometry is not definite but a quantum variable. In particular, a generalization of usual quantum theory is needed for field theory in the spacet...

We give a review, in the style of an essay, of the author’s 1998 matter-gravity entanglement hypothesis which, unlike the standard approach to entropy based on coarse-graining, offers a definition for the entropy of a closed system as a real and objective quantity. We explain how this approach offers an explanation for the Second Law of Thermodynamics in general and a non-paradoxical understand...

We investigate the black hole string transition in the two-dimensional Lorentzian black hole system from the exact boundary states that describe the rolling D-brane falling down into the two-dimensional black hole. The black hole string phase transition is one of the fundamental properties of the non-supersymmetric black holes in string theory, and we will reveal the nature of the phase transit...

Gram-positive bacteria can transport molecules necessary for their survival through holes in their cell wall. The holes in cell walls need to be large enough to let critical nutrients pass through. However, the cell wall must also function to prevent the bacteria's membrane from protruding through a large hole into the environment and lysing the cell. As such, we hypothesize that there exists a...

We point out that the recent conjecture relating largeN gauge theories to string theory in anti-de Sitter spaces o ers a resolution in principle of many problems in black hole physics. This is because the gauge theory also describes spacetimes which are not anti-de Sitter, and include black hole horizons and curvature singularities. gary, [email protected]

Accurate and powerful computational methods developped by the author, based on the analytic resolution of the wave equation in the black hole background, allow to obtain the highly non trivial total absorption spectrum of the Black Hole. As well as phase shifts and cross sections (elastic and inelastic) for a wide range of energy and angular momentum, the angular distribution of absorbed and sc...