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Field equations of a classical, geometric, theory of gravity, augmented with some semiclassical considerations strongly suggest that the gravitational field representing a stationary black hole can be simply described with a few…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin

We derive the exact solutions for electrically charged black holes both in the absence and presence of a cosmological constant in the gravitational theory with Lorentz violation induced by a background Kalb-Ramond (KR) field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Zheng-Qiao Duan , Ju-Ying Zhao , Ke Yang

The generalized second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases when all event horizons are attributed with an entropy proportional to their area. We test the generalized second law by investigating the change in entropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tamara M. Davis , P. C. W. Davies , Charles H. Lineweaver

Infalling matter may destroy a black hole and expose the naked singularity. Thus, Penrose proposed the weak cosmic censorship conjecture to avoid such a possibility. On the other hand, if the black hole is not destroyed by infalling matter,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Feng-Li Lin , Bo Ning , Yanbei Chen

In the Kerr-Schild double copy, static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions of general relativity are mapped to purely electric solutions of Maxwell's theory in flat spacetime. We demonstrate that, for these configurations, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 Gokhan Alkac

Hawking's black hole area theorem provides a geometric realization of the second law of thermodynamics and constrains gravitational processes. In this work we explore a one-parameter extension of this constraint formulated in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Alice Bernamonti , Federico Galli , Robert C. Myers , Ignacio A. Reyes

In this work, we have considered the power law correction of entropy on the horizon. If the flat FRW Universe is filled with the n components fluid with interactions, the GSL of thermodynamics for apparent and event horizons have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-03 Ujjal Debnath , Surajit Chattopadhyay , Ibrar Hussain , Mubasher Jamil , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We consider the universal sector of a $d$-dimensional large-$N$ strongly-interacting holographic CFT on a black hole spacetime background $B$. When our CFT$_d$ is coupled to dynamical Einstein-Hilbert gravity with Newton constant $G_{d}$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-15 William Bunting , Zicao Fu , Donald Marolf

We consider the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics in the light of quantum information theory, in particular information erasure and Landauer's principle (namely, that erasure of information produces at least the equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David D. Song , Elizabeth Winstanley

We provide a new regular black hole solution (RBH) in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity with localized sources of matter in the energy--momentum tensor. We determine the necessary constraints in order for the solution to be regular.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Milko Estrada , Rodrigo Aros

In this paper, we show a local generalized second law (the generalized entropy is nondecreasing) in crossed product constructions for maximally extended static and Kerr black holes using modular theory. The new ingredient is the use of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Mohd Ali , Vardarajan Suneeta

As one of candidate theories in the construction of regular black holes, Einstein's gravity coupled with nonlinear electrodynamics has been a topic of great concerns. Owing to the coupling between Einstein's gravity and nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Yang Guo , Hao Xie , Yan-Gang Miao

We investigate the validity of the Generalized Second Law (GSL) of thermodynamics in a $(2+1)$-dimensional holographic cosmological model with a negative cosmological constant. Adopting a horizon thermodynamics framework, we examine two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Praveen Kumar Dhankar , Aritra Sanyal , Safiqul Islam , Farook Rahaman , Behnam Pourhassan

It is established that black holes have entropy and behave as thermodynamical systems. Associating entropy to gravitational fields has not remained limited to black holes, necessitating the notion of the second law of thermodynamics in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-26 V. R. Shajiee , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

First and second laws of black hole thermodynamics are examined at the apparent horizon of FRW spacetime in $f(R,R_{\alpha\beta}R^{\alpha\beta} ,\phi)$ gravity, where $R$, $R_{\alpha\beta}R^{\alpha\beta}$ and $\phi$ are the Ricci scalar,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-17 M. Zubair , Farzana Kousar , Sebastian Bahamonde

Here it is shown that the variation in the fine structure constant measured by Webb et al. matches the theoretically derived value for the maximum variation in the electronic charge permitted by the Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jane H MacGibbon

In Poincar\'e gauge theory, black hole entropy is defined canonically by the variation of a boundary term $\Gamma_H$, located at horizon. For a class of static and spherically symmetric black holes in vacuum, the explicit formula reads…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-21 Milutin Blagojević , Branislav Cvetković

We propose a new formula for the entropy of a dynamical black hole$-$valid to leading order for perturbations off of a stationary black hole background$-$in an arbitrary classical diffeomorphism covariant Lagrangian theory of gravity in $n$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Stefan Hollands , Robert M. Wald , Victor G. Zhang

We examine the validity of the generalized second law (GSL) of gravitational thermodynamics in the context of interacting $f(R)$ gravity. We take into account that the boundary of the universe to be confined by the dynamical apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Ramon Herrera , Nelson Videla

Recently it has been shown that the third law of black hole mechanics can be violated: an exactly extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole can form in finite time in gravitational collapse of matter with a large charge to mass ratio. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Aidan M. McSharry , Harvey S. Reall