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Phase-Space Contractions of Carrollian Black-Hole Thermodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-07 v2

Abstract

We study Carrollian limits of Schwarzschild-AdS black-hole thermodynamics using covariant phase space. Allowing the cosmological constant to vary, we derive the extended Iyer-Wald identity and identify the renormalized bulk term proportional to δΛ\delta\Lambda with the generator-normalized thermodynamic volume contribution VξδPV_\xi\,\delta P. We show that the Carroll limit contracts the full thermodynamic phase space together with the metric. For fixed Newton constant, the Lorentzian generator t\partial_t collapses to a zero-norm direction as c0c\to0, yielding a degenerate sector with vanishing Hamiltonian variation, temperature and volume. Introducing ξλ=cαt\xi_\lambda=c^{-\alpha}\partial_t and G=cγGCG=c^\gamma G_C, we find that the extended first law scales as c1αγc^{1-\alpha-\gamma}, so finite phase-space contractions require α+γ=1\alpha+\gamma=1. The endpoint (α,γ)=(1,0)(\alpha,\gamma)=(1,0), obtained by τ=ct\tau=ct, is the ordinary non-degenerate Lorentzian finite-clock normalization. Carrollian finite first laws lie on the segment α<1\alpha<1, hence γ=1α>0\gamma=1-\alpha>0, and give T0T\to0, SS\to\infty, with finite TδST\,\delta S and VξδPV_\xi\,\delta P. We test the scaling principle for fixed-charge and fixed-rotation AdS black holes, and extend it to arbitrary spacetime dimension within the Schwarzschild-AdS family.

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@article{arxiv.2604.27449,
  title  = {Phase-Space Contractions of Carrollian Black-Hole Thermodynamics},
  author = {Yingnan Xu and Shuangshuang Chu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27449},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

21 pages, some references added, version submitted to JHEP