P-V Criticality in Quasitopological Gravity
Abstract
We investigate the thermodynamic behaviour of AdS quasitopological black hole solutions in the context of extended thermodynamic phase space, in which the cosmological constant induces a pressure with a conjugate volume. We find that the third order exact quasitopological solution exhibits features consistent with the third order Lovelock solutions for positive quasitopological coupling, including multiple reentrant phase transitions and isolated critical points. For negative coupling we find the first instances of both reentrant phase transitions and thermodynamic singularities in five dimensions, along with other modified thermodynamic behaviour compared to Einstein-AdS-Gauss Bonnet gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.05517,
title = {P-V Criticality in Quasitopological Gravity},
author = {Robie A. Hennigar and Wilson G. Brenna and Robert B. Mann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05517},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages, 15 figures, REVTeX 4-1; updated to match published version