PIRSA:09020004

Braneworld Black Holes

Gregory, R. (2009). Braneworld Black Holes. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09020004

Gregory, Ruth. Braneworld Black Holes. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 10, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09020004 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09020004,
            doi = {10.48660/09020004},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09020004},
            author = {Gregory, Ruth},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Braneworld Black Holes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:09020004 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Ruth Gregory King's College London

Talk numberPIRSA:09020004
DOI10.48660/09020004
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
Subject

Abstract

Braneworlds are a fascinating way of hiding extra dimensions by confining ourselves to live on a brane. One particular model (Randall-Sundrum) has a link to string theory via living in anti de Sitter space. I'll describe how the ads/cft correspondence has been used to claim that a braneworld black hole would tell us how Hawking radiation back reacts on spacetime, thus solving one of the outstanding problems of quantum gravity - the ultimate fate of an evaporating black hole. I'll review evidence for this conjecture, ending with some recent work that shows it may be problematic.