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Phase transitions in Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend Massive Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-03-20 v4

Abstract

We present the Hawking-Page phase diagrams in the Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend (BHT) massive gravity theory for different solutions, such as the phase transitions between vacuum AdS3\text{AdS}_3 and BTZ black hole, warped AdS3\text{AdS}_3 and warped BTZ black hole in grand canonical and in non-local/quadratic ensembles, Lifshitz black hole and the new hairy black hole solutions. We observe that except for the black holes in quadratic ensemble, for other cases in the non-chiral theory of BHT the phase diagrams are symmetric with respect to the direction of angular momentum, as we expected. We conclude that for presenting the phase diagrams of warped AdS3\text{AdS}_3 black holes, only the grand canonical ensemble should be used.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04403,
  title  = {Phase transitions in Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend Massive Gravity},
  author = {Mahdis Ghodrati and Ali Naseh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04403},
  year   = {2017}
}

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v4: 14 pages, 9 figures, published version

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