University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Recent progress in understanding black hole thermodynamics via string theory suggest that the Lorentzian geometry is not fundamental; rather, there is an underlying theory from which one may 'derive' this. In this talk, I will examine the simplest low dimensional black holes in terms of an underlying non-linear, but integrable, field theory. In particular, I will show that constant negative curvature two (or three) dimensional black holes can be realized as solitons of the sine-Gordon equation.