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Accelerating Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this presentation, I review recent work with Mike Appels and David Kubiznak on thermodynamics of accelerating black holes. I start by reviewing the geometry of accelerating black holes, focussing on the conical deficit responsible for the 'force' causing the black hole to accelerate. Then I discuss black hole thermodynamics with conical deficits, showing how to include the tension of the deficit as a thermodynamic variable, and introducing a canonically conjugate {\it thermodynamic length}. Finally, I describe the thermodynamics of the slowly accelerating black hole in anti-de Sitter spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.1712.04992,
  title  = {Accelerating Black Holes},
  author = {Ruth Gregory},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04992},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Prepared for proceedings of the 3rd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting. 8 pages, 6 figures

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