Black Hole Thermodynamics: Entropy, Information and Beyond

Abstract

We review some recent advances in black hole thermodynamics, including statistical mechanical origins of black hole entropy and its leading order corrections, from the viewpoints of various quantum gravity theories. We then examine the information loss problem and some possible approaches to its resolution. Finally, we study some proposed experiments which may be able to provide experimental signatures of black holes.

Plenary talk given at the Fifth International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Cochin, 7 January 2004. 13 pages, Revtex

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