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The Elliptic Interpretation of Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics

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Preamble. The lectures as delivered contained an elementary introduction to the classical theory of black holes together with an account of Hawking’s original derivation of the thermal emission from black holes in the quantum theory. I also described what is here called the “elliptic interpretation” partly because of its possible relevance to the lectures of Professor ’t Hooft. It seemed to me that there was little point in repeating in the written version what is rather standard material so I have decided to give a rather more detailed account of the elliptic interpretation and refer the reader to the original literature [1, 2] for the elementary material.

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  1. D.A.M.T.P., University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW, UK

    G. W. Gibbons

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  1. Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and High Energies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    Maurice Lévy  & Jean-Louis Basdevant  & 

  2. Theory Division, C.E.R.N., Geneva, Switzerland

    Maurice Jacob

  3. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    David Speiser  & Jacques Weyers  & 

  4. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Raymond Gastmans

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Gibbons, G.W. (1987). The Elliptic Interpretation of Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics. In: Lévy, M., Basdevant, JL., Jacob, M., Speiser, D., Weyers, J., Gastmans, R. (eds) Particle Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 150. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1877-4_5

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