Abstract
dc:description.abstractIn this dissertation we study black-hole horizons in general relativity and in Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We generalize Wald's "black-hole entropy is the Noether charge" construction to the first-order formalism of these theories. Next we construct the "membrane paradigm" for black objects in Gauss-Bonnet gravity and demonstrate how the horizon can be vieas a membrane with fluidlike properties. Holography is invoked to relate the transport coefficients obtained for the horizons in the membrane paradigm with the transport coefficients which describe the hydrodynamic limit of the boundary gauge theory.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D. in Physics
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Physics and Astronomy
- Year dc:date.available
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Mohd, Arif
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Luca Bombelli
- Micah B. Milinovich
- Emanuele Berti
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/769
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1768