Ashtekar, Abhay; Beetle, Christopher; Dreyer, Olaf; Fairhurst, Stephen; Krishnan, Badri; Lewandowski, Jerzy; Wiśniewski, Jacek Generic isolated horizons and their applications. (English) Zbl 1369.83036 Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, No. 17, 3564-3567 (2000). Summary: The notion of isolated horizons is extended to allow for distortion and rotation. Space-times containing a black hole, itself in equilibrium but possibly surrounded by radiation, satisfy these conditions. The framework has three types of applications: (i) it provides new tools to extract physics from strong field geometry; (ii) it leads to a generalization of the zeroth and first laws of black hole mechanics and sheds new light on the “origin” of the first law; and (iii) it serves as a point of departure for black hole entropy calculations in nonperturbative quantum gravity. Cited in 37 Documents MSC: 83C57 Black holes 83C60 Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism 83C22 Einstein-Maxwell equations PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{A. Ashtekar} et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, No. 17, 3564--3567 (2000; Zbl 1369.83036) Full Text: DOI arXiv