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Quasilocal Smarr relation for an asymptotically flat spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-29 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the thermodynamics of Einstein-Maxwell(-Dilaton) theory for an asymptotically flat spacetime in a quasilocal frame. We firstly define a quasilocal thermodynamic potential via the Euclidean on-shell action and formulate a quasilocal Smarr relation from Eulerian theorem. Then we calculate quasilocal energy and surface pressure by employing Brown-York quasilocal method along with Mann-Marolf counterterm and find entropy from the quasilocal thermodynamic potential. These quasilocal variables are consistent with Tolman temperature and the entropy in a quasilocal frame turns out to be same as the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. As a result, we found that a surface pressure term and its conjugate variable, a quasilocal area, do not participate in a quasilocal thermodynamic potential, but should present in a quasilocal Smarr relation and the quasilocal first law of black hole thermodynamics. For dyonic black hole solutions having dynamic dilaton field, non-trivial dilaton contribution should take part in the quasilocal first law but not in the quasilocal Smarr relation.

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@article{arxiv.1809.07259,
  title  = {Quasilocal Smarr relation for an asymptotically flat spacetime},
  author = {Yein Lee and Matthew Richards and Sean Stotyn and Miok Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07259},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages, overall reorganized

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