Extended black hole thermodynamics in a DGP braneworld
Abstract
We develop extended black-hole thermodynamics on a Dvali--Gabadadze--Porrati (DGP) brane by promoting the brane tension to a thermodynamic variable within the extended Iyer--Wald framework. The brane tension acts as a localized vacuum energy with pressure , yielding a new work term in the first law and the corresponding Smarr relation. For static, spherically symmetric black holes we show that the conjugate volume equals the geometric volume ; for stationary, axisymmetric solutions it admits a covariant, slice-independent definition and evaluates to . Working on the ghost-free normal branch, the brane is asymptotically flat with a single horizon, so the construction avoids de Sitter obstructions. Along a flat-brane path, asymptotic flatness is preserved by co-varying the bulk cosmological constant, and induced-gravity effects are suppressed by . These results establish a consistent flat-braneworld realization of black-hole chemistry in which brane tension provides the physically motivated pressure variable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.18508,
title = {Extended black hole thermodynamics in a DGP braneworld},
author = {Naman Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18508},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
9 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation