Black holes, de Sitter and anti de Sitter spaces

October 2 - october 29

Institut Henri Poincare

Gary Horowitz (UCSB/IHP)

Presently only copies of manuscript notes taken by Sonia Stanciu exist as IHP Lecture notes 45

Lecture 1

• Gravitational collapse

• Schwarzchild solution

• Eddington coordinates

• Properties of the event horizon

Lecture 2

• Maximal analytic extension of Schwarzschild

• Kruskal coordinates

• Conformal infinity

• Penrose diagrams

• Uniqueness theorem

Lecture 3

• Charged black holes

• Reissner-Nordstrom solution and its extremal limit

• Black hole thermodynamics

Lecture 4

• De Sitter and anti de Sitter solutions

• Properties of black holes when the cosmological constant is non zero