Amanda W. Peet
Published 2000-08-31, updated 2000-09-08Version 2
This is a write-up of introductory lectures on black holes in string theory given at TASI-99. Topics discussed include: Black holes, thermodynamics and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, the information problem; supergravity actions, conserved quantum numbers, supersymmetry and BPS states, units and duality, dimensional reduction, solution-generating; extremal M-branes and D-branes, smearing, probe actions, nonextremal branes, the Gregory-Laflamme instability; breakdown of supergravity and the Correspondence Principle, limits in parameter space, singularity resolution; making black holes with branes, intersection-ology, explicit d=5,4 examples; string/brane computations of extremal black hole entropy in d=5,4, rotation, fractionation; non-extremality and entropy, the link to BTZ black holes, Hawking radiation and absorption cross-sections in the string/brane and supergravity pictures.
Comments: 80 pages LaTeX, 8 figures (v2: references added[apologies to wronged Authors] and a few other minor modifications)
AdS$_3$/CFT Correspondence, Poincaré Vacuum State and Greybody Factors in BTZ Black Holes
Generic approach to dimensional reduction and selection principle for low-energy limit of M theory
Anisotropic Inflation in a 5D Standing Wave Braneworld and Dimensional Reduction
