The Extended Thermodynamic Phase Structure of Taub-NUT and Taub-Bolt
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-08-04 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We study aspects of the extended gravitational thermodynamics for the Taub-NUT and Taub-Bolt geometries in four dimensional locally anti-de Sitter spacetime, where the cosmological constant is treated as a dynamical pressure. Attention is paid to the phase structure in the (p,T) plane, which has a line of first order phase transitions extending from the origin. We argue for a dynamical interpretation of the unstable physics in the negative specific heat region. A deformation corresponding to a dyonic Taub-NUT/Bolt system is also explored, and the effect of the deformation on the phase diagram is characterised.
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@article{arxiv.1406.4533,
title = {The Extended Thermodynamic Phase Structure of Taub-NUT and Taub-Bolt},
author = {Clifford V. Johnson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4533},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
22 pages; 8 multicomponent figures; one trumpet (version that appears in CQG)