Date of Award

1-1-2015

Language

English

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

College/School/Department

Department of Physics

Content Description

1 online resource (vi, 60 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Oleg Lunin

Committee Members

Ariel Caticha, Jesse Ernst

Keywords

Black Holes, Fuzzballs, Hawking Radiation, Information Paradox, Spectral Flow, String Theory, String models, Black holes (Astronomy), Entropy

Subject Categories

Other Physics

Abstract

String theory has resolved the information paradox associated with entropy of black holes by identifying microscopic states contributing to this entropy. This thesis reviews the origin of the paradox, and discusses the progress in resolving it, starting from the counting of states by Strominger and Vafa, and culminating in the current work on constructing fuzzball geometries. A particular emphasis is given to a promising technique for constructing new geometries known as spectral flow.

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