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2d Stringy Black Holes and Varying Constants

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Motivated by the recent interest on models with varying constants and whether black hole physics can constrain such theories, two-dimensional charged stringy black holes are considered. We exploit the role of two-dimensional stringy black holes as toy models for exploring paradoxes which may lead to constrains on a theory. A two-dimensional charged stringy black hole is investigated in two different settings. Firstly, the two-dimensional black hole is treated as an isolated object and secondly, it is contained in a thermal environment. In both cases, it is shown that the temperature and the entropy of the two-dimensional charged stringy black hole are decreased when its electric charge is increased in time. By piecing together our results and previous ones, we conclude that in the context of black hole thermodynamics one cannot derive any model independent constraints for the varying constants. Therefore, it seems that there aren't any varying constant theories that are out of favor with black hole thermodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0307192,
  title  = {2d Stringy Black Holes and Varying Constants},
  author = {Elias C. Vagenas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0307192},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, LaTeX, to appear in JHEP

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