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Thermodynamics of two aligned Kerr black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-06-24 v2

Abstract

We investigate the first law of thermodynamics in the stationary axisymmetric configurations composed of two Kerr black holes separated by a massless strut. Our analysis employs the recent results obtained for the extended double-Kerr solution and for thermodynamics of the static single and binary black holes. We show that, similar to the electrostatic case, in the stationary binary systems the thermodynamic length \ell is defined by the formula =Lexp(γ0)\ell=L\exp(\gamma_0), where LL is the coordinate length of the strut, and γ0\gamma_0 is the value of the metric function γ\gamma on the strut.

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@article{arxiv.2007.02918,
  title  = {Thermodynamics of two aligned Kerr black holes},
  author = {C. J. Ramírez-Valdez and H. García-Compeán and V. S. Manko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02918},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures; revised version accepted for publication in PRD