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Ruppeiner theory of black hole thermodynamics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The Ruppeiner metric as determined by the Hessian of the Gibbs surface provides a geometric description of thermodynamic systems in equilibrium. An interesting example is a black hole in equilibrium with its own Hawking radiation. In this article, we present results from the Ruppeiner study of various black hole families from different gravity theories e.g. 2D dilaton gravity, BTZ, general relativity and higher-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell gravity.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0611119,
  title  = {Ruppeiner theory of black hole thermodynamics},
  author = {Jan E Aman and James Bedford and Daniel Grumiller and Narit Pidokrajt and John Ward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0611119},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure. Talk given by N Pidokrajt at ERE2006 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain