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We trace the origins and development of black hole thermodynamics across the past half-century, emphasizing the framework's relation to classical thermodynamics, and the vital role played by the notions of equilibrium, stationarity, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Fil Simovic

Masking of black holes means that, for given total mass and Hawking temperatures, these data may correspond to either "pure" black hole or a black hole of a lesser mass surrounded by a massive shell. It is shown that there is one-to one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-19 Oleg B. Zaslavskii

The usual discussions about black hole dynamics involve analogies with laws of thermodynamics especially in connection with black hole entropy and the associated holographic principle. We explore complementary aspects involving…

General Physics · Physics 2011-05-23 C. Sivaram

The first law of black hole thermodynamics can be read off from the field equations at the horizon. Until now, for black holes with multiple horizons the field equations only at the outer horizon were employed with a particular constraint.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-21 Yongjoon Kwon , Soonkeon Nam

We describe the horizon of a quantum black hole in terms of a dynamical surface which defines the boundary of space-time as seen by external static observers, and we define a path integral in the presence of this dynamical boundary. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Michele Maggiore

We review the remarkable relationship between the laws of black hole mechanics and the ordinary laws of thermodynamics. It is emphasized that - in analogy with the laws of thermodynamics - the validity the laws of black hole mechanics does…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert M. Wald

Although the fundamental equations of ordinary thermodynamic systems are known to correspond to first-degree homogeneous functions, in the case of non-ordinary systems like black holes the corresponding fundamental equations are not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Hernando Quevedo , Maria N. Quevedo , Alberto Sanchez

In this work, we treat black holes as bifurcation points and explore their thermodynamic phase structure using the framework of bifurcation theory which is a commonly used method from nonlinear dynamics. By constructing an appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Bidyut Hazarika , Prabwal Phukon

Non-perturbative quantum general relativity provides a possible framework to analyze issues related to black hole thermodynamics from a fundamental perspective. A pedagogical account of the recent developments in this area is given. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Ashtekar , Kirill Krasnov

In this work we suggest a simplified "quasi-classical" formalism of the Schwarzschild black hole thermodynamics. We define such small quantum system at Schwarzschild black hole horizon surface whose reduced Compton wavelength equals one…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Vladan Pankovic

Event horizons are the defining physical features of black hole spacetimes, and are of considerable interest in studying black hole dynamics. Here, we reconsider three techniques to localise event horizons in numerical spacetimes:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-15 Michael I. Cohen , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Horizons of black holes or cosmologies are peculiar loci of spacetime where interesting physical effects takes place, some of which are probed by recent (EHT and LIGO) and future experiments (ET and LISA). We discuss that there are boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 D. Grumiller , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , C. Zwikel

We study the thermodynamic properties of black hole horizons in Einstein Gauss Bonnet gravity. We derive the thermodynamic products of characteristic parameters to mark which are global. We further interpret the stability of the black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Abhijit Mandal , Ritabrata Biswas

This paper presents a quasi-local method of studying the physics of dynamical black holes in numerical simulations. This is done within the dynamical horizon framework, which extends the earlier work on isolated horizons to time-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Erik Schnetter , Badri Krishnan , Florian Beyer

Although the laws of thermodynamics are well established for black hole horizons, much less has been said in the literature to support the extension of these laws to more general settings such as an asymptotic de Sitter horizon or a Rindler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Ted Jacobson , Renaud Parentani

We give a brief survey of thermodynamic metrics, in particular the Hessian of the entropy function, and how they apply to black hole thermodynamics. We then provide a detailed discussion of the Gibbs surface of Kerr black holes. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-30 Jan Åman , Ingemar Bengtsson , Narit Pidokrajt

We introduce the concept of a geometric horizon, which is a surface distinguished by the vanishing of certain curvature invariants which characterize its special algebraic character. We motivate its use for the detection of the event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 Alan Coley , David McNutt

A brief reference to the two Schwarzschild solutions and what Petrov had to say about them is given. Comments on how the Schwarzschild vacuum solution describes a black hole are also provided. Then we compare the properties, differences and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-09 José P. S. Lemos

An attempt is made to describe the `thermodynamics' of semiclassical spacetime without specifying the detailed `molecular structure' of the quantum spacetime, using the known properties of blackholes. I give detailed arguments, essentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 T. Padmanabhan

Although ordinary laboratory thermodynamic systems are known to be homogeneous systems, black holes are different and cannot be considered within this class. Using the formalism of geometrothermodynamics, we show that black holes should be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 Hernando Quevedo