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Black Hole Entropy Bounded by the Specific Heat

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-07-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose new bounds on black hole entropy in terms of the specific heat at fixed charges. For special spherically-symmetric and static black holes (gttgrr=1g_{tt} g_{rr}=-1), we prove the bounds with suitable sufficient energy conditions. For more general static and rotating black holes, we test the bounds with a variety of examples. This work extends the previously-known algebraic inequalities of the black hole thermodynamic variables such as the Penrose inequality, to include their derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.2507.17812,
  title  = {Black Hole Entropy Bounded by the Specific Heat},
  author = {Kai-Peng Lu and H. Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17812},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Latex, 25 pages, 2 figures in Appendix

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