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Lovelock black hole thermodynamics in a string cloud model

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-11-13 v1

Abstract

The Lovelock theory is an extension of general relativity to higher dimensions. We study the Lovelock black hole for a string cloud model in arbitrary dimensional spacetime, and in turn also analyze its thermodynamical properties. Indeed, we compute the mass, temperature and entropy of the black hole and also perform a thermodynamical stability analysis. The phase structure suggests that the Hawking-Page phase transition is achievable. It turns out that the presence of the Lovelock terms and/or background string cloud completely changes the black hole thermodynamics. Interestingly, the entropy of a black hole is unaffected due to a background string cloud, but has a correction term due to Lovelock gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1511.03976,
  title  = {Lovelock black hole thermodynamics in a string cloud model},
  author = {Tae-Hun Lee and Sushant G. Ghosh and Sunil D. Maharaj and Dharmanand Baboolal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03976},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages, submitted for publication

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