Phase Transitions in Warped AdS$_3$ Gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-11 v1
Abstract
We consider asymptotically Warped AdS black holes in Topologically Massive Gravity. We study their thermodynamic stability and show the existence of a Hawking-Page phase transition between the black hole and thermal background phases. At zero angular potential, the latter is shown to occur at the self-dual point of the dual Warped Conformal Field Theory partition function, in analogy with the phase transition for BTZ black holes in AdS/CFT. We also discuss how the central and vacuum charges can be obtained from inner horizon mechanics in the presence of a gravitational anomaly.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.00827,
title = {Phase Transitions in Warped AdS$_3$ Gravity},
author = {Stéphane Detournay and Céline Zwikel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00827},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
30 pages, 6 figures