Physics of Quantized Fields and Black Holes

将研究黑洞周围和内部的量子效应。将开发新的工具来扩展目前计算真空应力-能量张量的能力，并努力使这些工具足够简单和便携，以便它们可以被其他研究小组采用和使用。我们还将寻求极端黑洞的半经典引力研究与它们在超弦理论中的作用之间的进一步联系。在超弦理论中起关键作用的极端零温度黑洞的现有结果将被扩展到包括具有非零宇宙常数的时空中的黑洞和旋转黑洞。这些研究将进一步阐明黑洞和量子物理之间的联系，为量子引力理论的性质提供新的见解，并有助于建立超弦理论和更“传统”的时空量子化方法之间的联系。

Quantum effects around and inside black holes will be studied. New toolswill be developed to extend present abilities in calculating vacuumstress-energy tensors, and efforts made to make these tools ofsufficient simplicity and portability so that they may be adopted andused by other research groups. Further connections between semiclassicalgravitational studies of extreme black holes and their role insuperstring theories will be sought. Existing results on extreme,zero-temperature black holes, which play a critical role in superstringtheories, will be extended to include black holes in spacetimes with anonzero cosmological constant, and to rotating black holes. These studies will further illuminate the connection between blackholes and quantum physics, providing new insights into properties oftheories of quantum gravity and helping to establish connections betweensuperstring theories and more "conventional" approaches to thequantization of spacetime.