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| Author(s): |
Rodrigo Dal Bosco Fontana
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2006-08-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Elcio Abdalla;
Josif Frenkel;
Antonio Lima Santos
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| Advisor: | Elcio Abdalla |
| Abstract | |
Over the last 90 years Einstein`s Theory of General Relativity has had a tremendous success in all its predictions. This dissertation is concerned with the study of this theory and its extrapolations. We begin with the first solution of the Einstein equations for black holes obtained by Karl Schwarzschild at 1916: the spherically symmetric black hole without charge, obtaining the orbits and the scalar and gravitational perturbations around the metric. We also consider the recent developments in black hole thermodynamics via a semiclassical approach to the theory. Subsequently, we study the new theories based on general relativity extrapolations, which solve the hierarchy problem proposing extra dimensions in our Universe. In this context we analyze for example the behavior of black holes in Universes with more than 4 dimensions. Finally, we study the gravitational perturbations in a black string showing the presence of unstable modes with wave length bigger than the black string horizon. We also show that in one of the possible Universes which solve the hierarchy problem there are no gravitational shortcuts even for non-at branes (an extrapolation of Randall-Sundrum Universes). (AU) | |