Phase-Space Contractions of Carrollian Black-Hole Thermodynamics
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 with the generator-normalized thermodynamic volume contribution . We show that the Carroll limit contracts the full thermodynamic phase space together with the metric. For fixed Newton constant, the Lorentzian generator collapses to a zero-norm direction as , yielding a degenerate sector with vanishing Hamiltonian variation, temperature and volume. Introducing and , we find that the extended first law scales as , so finite phase-space contractions require . The endpoint , obtained by , is the ordinary non-degenerate Lorentzian finite-clock normalization. Carrollian finite first laws lie on the segment , hence , and give , , with finite and . 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}
}
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21 pages, some references added, version submitted to JHEP