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Positive specific heat of the quantum corrected dilaton black hole

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Path integral quantization of dilaton gravity in two dimensions is applied to the CGHS model to the first nontrivial order in matter loops. Our approach is background independent as geometry is integrated out exactly. The result is an effective shift of the Killing norm: the apparent horizon becomes smaller. The Hawking temperature which is constant to leading order receives a quantum correction. As a consequence, the specific heat becomes positive and proportional to the square of the black hole mass.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0305036,
  title  = {Positive specific heat of the quantum corrected dilaton black hole},
  author = {D. Grumiller and W. Kummer and D. V. Vassilevich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0305036},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, JHEP style, 1 eps figure, v2: extended the discussion, added new formulas for mass change, added three new references (in particular [35])