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Charged Dilaton Black Holes with a Cosmological Constant

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-01 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The properties of static spherically symmetric black holes, which are either electrically or magnetically charged, and which are coupled to the dilaton in the presence of a cosmological constant, are considered. It is shown that such solutions do not exist if the cosmological constant is positive (in arbitrary spacetime dimension >= 4). However, asymptotically anti-de Sitter black hole solutions with a single horizon do exist if the cosmological constant is negative. These solutions are studied numerically in four dimensions and the thermodynamic properties of the solutions are derived. The extreme solutions are found to have zero entropy and infinite temperature for all non-zero values of the dilaton coupling constant.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9412076,
  title  = {Charged Dilaton Black Holes with a Cosmological Constant},
  author = {S. J. Poletti and J. Twamley and D. L. Wiltshire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9412076},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

12 pages, epsf, phyzzx, 4 in-text figures incl. (minor typos fixed, 1 reference added)