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We investigate the thermodynamic behavior of the Hayward-AdS black hole and compare it with its singular counterpart from which it can be constructed through the imposition of an additional constraint. The singular black hole displays a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Qi-Hang Xia , Hui-Hua Zhao , Meng-Sen Ma

In this paper, we show the relation between the thermodynamic geometry of a four-dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS (RN-AdS) black hole and non-local observables in boundary field theory. Instead of introducing the critical point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Chao Wang , Bin Wu , Zhen Ming Xu , Wen Li Yang

In addition to curvature singularities, electrovacuum black holes in general relativity exhibit thermodynamic singularities. These so-called Davies' points occur at nonextremal values of charge and spin where the heat capacity diverges and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-18 Arthur G. Suvorov , Pedro Bargueño

We study the dynamics of strongly interacting gauge-theory matter (modelling quark-gluon plasma) in a boost-invariant setting using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Using Fefferman-Graham coordinates and with the help of holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Romuald A. Janik , Robi Peschanski

Black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) backgrounds play a pivotal role in the gauge/gravity duality where they determine, among other things, the approach to equilibrium of the dual field theory. We undertake a detailed analysis of perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Vitor Cardoso , Oscar J. C. Dias , Gavin S. Hartnett , Luis Lehner , Jorge E. Santos

The physical properties of Reissner-Nordstrom black holes in (n+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime are related, by a holographic map, to the physics of a class of n-dimensional field theories coupled to a background global current.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Andrew Chamblin , Roberto Emparan , Clifford V. Johnson , Robert C. Myers

We study $P-V$ critical behavior of 4-dimensional AdS black hole in the Einstein-Maxwell gravity with conformal anomaly by treating the cosmological constant as a variable related to the thermodynamic pressure. It shows that there is no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-04 Ming Zhang , Rui-Hong Yue , Zhan-Ying Yang

The effects of conformal anomaly on the thermodynamics of black holes are investigated in this Letter from the perspective of $P-V$ criticality of AdS black holes. Treating the cosmological constant as thermodynamic pressure, we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-12 Jie-Xiong Mo , Wen-Biao Liu

Singularities in the thermodynamics of Kerr-Newman black holes are commonly associated with phase transitions. However, such interpretations are complicated by a lack of stability and, more significantly, by a lack of conclusive insight…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 George Ruppeiner

On the phase diagram of a system undergoing a continuous phase transition of the second order, three lines, hyper-surfaces, convergent into the critical point feature prominently: the ordered and disordered phases in the thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 A. Kashuba

As first discovered by Choptuik, the black hole threshold in the space of initial data for general relativity shows both surprising structure and surprising simplicity. Universality, power-law scaling of the black hole mass, and scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Carsten Gundlach , David Hilditch , José M. Martín-García

We study the critical behavior in the black p-branes and four dimensional charged dilaton black holes. We calculate the thermodynamic fluctuations in the various (microcanonical, canonical, and grandcanonical) ensembles. It is found that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Rong-Gen Cai , Y. S. Myung

We study the possible dynamical emergence of IR conformal invariance describing the low energy excitations of near-extremal R-charged global AdS5 black holes. We find interesting behavior especially when we tune parameters in such a way…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Jan de Boer , Maria Johnstone , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , Joan Simon

Extremal and near extremal black holes are unstable, unless they are protected by supersymmetry. For black holes in AdS$_3 \times S^3$, we study the range of parameters that bound the unstable region, the fate of extremal black holes that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Finn Larsen , Siyul Lee

We construct a one-parameter family of exact time-dependent solutions to 2+1 gravity with a negative cosmological constant and a massless minimally coupled scalar field as source. These solutions present a continuously self-similar (CSS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerard Clement , Alessandro Fabbri

By regarding the Newton constant $G_{N}$ and cosmological constant $\Lambda$ as variables, we in this paper study the thermodynamics and phase transition of Reissner-Nordstr$\ddot{o}$m anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole with global monopole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-04 He-Bin Zheng , Yun-Xian Chen , Jian Tang

In black hole thermodynamics, it has been observed that AdS black holes behave as van der Waals system if one interprets the cosmological constant as a pressure term. Also the critical exponents for the phase transition of AdS black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-19 Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Saurav Samanta

As is well known that RN-AdS black hole has a phase transition which is similar to that of van der Waals system. The phase transition depends on the electric potential of the black hole and is not the one between a large black hole and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Xiong-Ying Guo , Huai-Fan Li , Li-Chun Zhang , Ren Zhao

We examine the thermodynamics of a new class of asymptotically AdS black holes with non-constant curvature event horizons in Gauss-Bonnet Lovelock gravity, with the cosmological constant acting as thermodynamic pressure. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-08 Brayden R. Hull , Robert B. Mann

Within the framework of extended black hole thermodynamics, where the cosmological constant acts as the thermodynamic pressure and its conjugate as the thermodynamic volume, we analyze the phase structure and thermodynamic geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Juan F. Pedraza , Morteza Rafiee