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How Anti-de Sitter Black Holes Reach Thermal Equilibrium

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-01-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is commonly known in the literature that large black holes in anti-de Sitter spacetimes (with reflective boundary condition) are in thermal equilibrium with their Hawking radiation. Focusing on black holes with event horizon of toroidal topology, we study a simple model to understand explicitly how this thermal equilibrium is reached under Hawking evaporation. It is shown that it is possible for a large toroidal black hole to evolve into a small (but stable) one.

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@article{arxiv.2107.01556,
  title  = {How Anti-de Sitter Black Holes Reach Thermal Equilibrium},
  author = {Ru Ling and Hao Xu and Yen Chin Ong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01556},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages;v2: references added, minor corrections;v3: published version in PLB