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Entropy of black holes in topologically massive gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-07-24 v2

Abstract

We study the issue of black hole entropy in the topologically massive gravity. Assuming that the presence of gravitational Chern-Simons term with the coupling 1/μ1/\mu does modify the horizon radius r~+\tilde{r}_+, we propose S~BH=πr~+/2G3\tilde{S}_{BH}=\pi \tilde{r}_+/2G_3 as the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. This entropy of CS-BTZ black hole satisfies the first-law of thermodynamics and the area-law but it is slightly different from the shifted-entropy Sc=πr+/2G3+(1/μl)πr/2G3S_c=\pi r_+/2G_3+ (1/\mu l)\pi r_-/2G_3 based on the BTZ black hole with outer r+r_+ and inner horizon rr_-. In the case of r=0r_-=0, S~BH\tilde{S}_{BH} represents the entropy of non-rotating BTZ black hole with the Chern-Simons term (NBTZ-CS), while ScS_c reduces to the entropy of NBTZ black hole. It shows that S~BH\tilde{S}_{BH} may be a candidate for the entropy of the CS-BTZ black hole.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3794,
  title  = {Entropy of black holes in topologically massive gravity},
  author = {Yun Soo Myung and Hyung Won Lee and Yong-Wan Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3794},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

11 pages, an expanded version to discuss thermodynamic aspects of BTZ-CS and CS-BTZ black holes

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