Thermodynamics of charged, rotating, and accelerating black holes

Anabalón, Andrés; Gray, Finnian; Gregory, Ruth; Kubizňák, David; Mann, Robert B.

Abstract

We show how to obtain a consistent thermodynamic description of accelerating asymptotically AdS black holes, extending our previous results by including charge and rotation. We find that the key ingredient of consistent thermodynamics is to ensure that the system is not over-constrained by including the possibility of varying the ‘string’ tensions that are responsible for the acceleration of the black hole, yielding a first law of full cohomogeneity. The first law assumes the standard form, with the entropy given by one quarter of the horizon area and other quantities identified by standard methods. In particular we compute the mass in two independent ways: through a Euclidean action calculation and by the method of conformal completion. The ambiguity in the choice of the normalization of the timelike Killing vector can be fixed by explicit coordinate transformation (in the case of rotation) to the standard AdS form or by holographic methods (in the case of charge). This resolves a long-standing problem of formulating the thermodynamics of accelerating black holes, opening the way to detailed studies of their phase behaviour.

Citation

Anabalón, A., Gray, F., Gregory, R., Kubizňák, D., & Mann, R. B. (2019). Thermodynamics of charged, rotating, and accelerating black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(4), Article 96. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282019%29096

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 9, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Apr 15, 2019
• Publication Date: Apr 30, 2019
• Deposit Date: May 1, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: May 1, 2019
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2019
• Issue: 4
• Article Number: 96
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282019%29096
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1331993