General Relativity and Quantum Gravity
Classical and quantum aspects of the gravitational interaction are being investigated. This includes trying to prove (or find a counterexample to) the cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity, and studying semi-classical processes such as the pair creation of black holes. String theory is a promising candidate for a complete quantum theory of gravity. I am interested in various aspects of this theory, including its predictions for black holes, black strings, and spacetime singularities. Recent work has shown that string theory can provide a statistical origin of black hole thermodynamics.
(Gary T. Horowitz)

Recent publications:

[Copies of most publications are available from the Los Alamos e-print hep-th and gr-qc archives, http://xxx.lanl.gov]

Correspondence Principle for Black Holes and Strings (with J. Polchinski) Phys. Rev. D55, 6189, 1997; hep-th/9612146.

Quantum States of Black Holes, in Black Holes and Relativistic Stars, (ed. R. Wald) University of Chicago Press (1998); gr-qc/9704072.

Comments on Black Holes in Matrix Theory (with E. Martinec) Phys. Rev. D57, 4935, 1998; hep-th/9710217.

Spectrum of Large N Gauge Theory from Supergravity (with H. Ooguri) Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4116, 1998; hep-th/9802116.

The AdS/CFT Correspondence and a New Positive Energy Conjecture for General Relativity (with R. Myers) hep-th/9808079. to appear in Phys. Rev. D.

 

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