| Speaker: | Roberto Emparan (ICREA & U.Barcelona) |
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| Title: | Black Holes and Blackfolds in Higher Dimensions |
| Date (JST): | Wed, Feb 04, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Place: | Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B |
| Related File: | 39.pdf |
| Abstract: | I'll start with a review of the motivations, goals, and current status of the study of higher-dimensional black holes. Then I'll explain how the main feature behind novel properties of these black holes, compared to four-dimensional ones, is that their horizons can have two characteristic lengths of very different size. A long-distance effective theory (blackfold approach) reveals novel kinds of black objects, but more generally it provides a new organizing framework for the dynamics of higher-dimensional black holes. |
