No Hawking-Page phase transition in three dimensions
Abstract
We investigate whether or not the Hawking-Page phase transition is possible to occur in three dimensions. Starting with the simplest class of Lanczos-Lovelock action, thermodynamic behavior of all AdS-type black holes without charge falls into two classes: Schwarzschild-AdS black holes in even dimensions and Chern-Simons black holes in odd dimensions. The former class can provide the Hawking-Page transition between Schwarzschild-AdS black holes and thermal AdS space. On the other hand, the latter class is exceptional and thus the Hawking-Page transition is hard to occur. In three dimensions, a second-order phase transition might occur between the non-rotating BTZ black hole and the massless BTZ black hole (thermal AdS space), instead of the first-order Hawking-Page transition between the non-rotating BTZ black hole and thermal AdS space.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0506096,
title = {No Hawking-Page phase transition in three dimensions},
author = {Yun Soo Myung},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0506096},
year = {2010}
}
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10 pages, version to appear in PLB