Introduction to black hole thermodynamics

Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, 6-7 December 2023


Slides

The slides only contains the figures shown during the lectures; for more details, take a look at the indicated chapters of the lecture notes.

1. Definition and main properties of black holes (6 December 2023)

(Chapters 1 and 4 of the lecture notes)

2. Killing horizons and the zeroth law (6 December 2023)

(Chapters 2 and 3 of the lecture notes)

3. Global quantities and the first law (7 December 2023)

(Sec. 5.4 and Chapter 16 of the lecture notes)

4. Evolution of black holes and the second law (7 December 2023)

(Chapter 16 of the lecture notes)