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Black Hole Thermodynamics with Conical Defects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Recently we have shown [1604.08812] how to formulate a thermodynamic first law for a single (charged) accelerated black hole in AdS space by fixing the conical deficit angles present in the spacetime. Here we show how to generalise this result, formulating thermodynamics for black holes with varying conical deficits. We derive a new potential for the varying tension defects: the "thermodynamic length", both for accelerating and static black holes. We discuss possible physical processes in which the tension of a string ending on a black hole might vary, and also map out the thermodynamic phase space of accelerating black holes and explore their critical phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1702.00490,
  title  = {Black Hole Thermodynamics with Conical Defects},
  author = {Michael Appels and Ruth Gregory and David Kubiznak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00490},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

26 pages, 8 figures

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