Paper: astro-ph/0511743
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:29:47 GMT (302kb)

Title: Primordial Black Holes: Do They Exist and Are They Useful?

Authors: B. J. Carr

Comments: 21 pages. 6 figures. To appear in Proceedings of "Inflating Horizon
of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology", Universal Academy Press Inc and
Yamada Science Foundation (2005)
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Recent developments in the study of primordial black holes (PBHs) are
reviewed, with particular emphasis on their formation and evaporation. It is
still not clear whether PBHs formed but, if they did, they could provide a
unique probe of the early Universe, gravitational collapse, high energy physics
and quantum gravity. Indeed their study may place interesting constraints on
the physics relevant to these areas even if they never existed.

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