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We clarify the relation between the Noether charge associated to an arbitrary vector field and the equations of motions by revisiting Wald formalism. For a time-like Killing vector, aspects of the Noether charge suggest that it is dual to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Zhong-Ying Fan

In AdS/CFT, the holographic Weyl anomaly computation relates the a-anomaly coefficient to the properties of the bulk action at the UV fixed point. This universal behavior suggests the possibility of a holographic c-theorem for the a-anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 James T. Liu , Wafic Sabra , Zhichen Zhao

We show that, in the first or second order orthonormal frame formalism, black hole entropy is the horizon Noether charge for a combination of diffeomorphism and local Lorentz symmetry involving the Lie derivative of the frame. The Noether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Ted Jacobson , Arif Mohd

A general Hamiltonian approach to black hole thermodynamics is used to study entropy and conserved charges for Kerr-AdS solutions in general relativity. These thermodynamic variables are first consistently defined by choosing suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 Milutin Blagojević , Branislav Cvetković

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

We prove the constancy of surface gravity across a Killing horizon (not necessarily of bifurcate type) in arbitrary higher curvature theories of gravity coupled to Proca fields $-$ vector fields lacking $U(1)$ gauge invariance $-$ thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-12 Parthajit Biswas , Alokananda Kar , Anowar Shaikh

We first obtain the $D$-dimensional asymptotically AdS charged black hole solution in general nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED). We then use the Hamilton-Jacobi method to describe the motion in curved spacetime of a scalar particle and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-09 Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

The role of torsion in quantum three-dimensional gravity is investigated by studying the partition function of the Euclidean theory in Riemann-Cartan spacetime. The entropy of the black hole with torsion is found to differ from the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Blagojevic , B. Cvetkovic

In previous work, a first law of generalized entropy was derived from semiclassical gravitational dynamics around thermal setups using an assumed relation between the matter modular Hamiltonian and the gravitational stress tensor. Allowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Hong Zhe Chen

Black holes are more than just odd-looking curiosities in gravity theory. They uniquely intertwine the basic principles of General Relativity with those of Quantum Theory. Just by demanding that they nevertheless obey acceptable laws of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Gerard t Hooft

Thermodynamics of extended gravity static spherically symmetric black hole solutions is investigated. The energy issue is discussed making use of the derivation of Clausius relation from equations of motion, evaluating the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-15 Guido Cognola , Lorenzo Sebastiani , Sergio Zerbini

There are several reasons to support the idea that entropy might be associated to gravity itself. In the absence of a quantum theory of gravity, classical estimators for the gravitational entropy have been proposed. Any viable description…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Alan Alejandro Pánuco Liñán , Daniela Pérez , Carlos Luna , Gustavo E. Romero

We consider the thermodynamic properties of the constant curvature black hole solution recently found by Banados. We show that it is possible to compute the entropy and the quasilocal thermodynamics of the spacetime using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Jolien D. E. Creighton , Robert B. Mann

Using the corrected entropy-area relation motivated by the loop quantum gravity, we investigate the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics in the framework of modified FRW cosmology. We consider a non-flat universe filled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 K. Karami , A. Sheykhi , N. Sahraei , S. Ghaffari

The covariant canonical expression for the conserved charges, proposed by Nester, is tested on several solutions in 3D gravity with or without torsion and topologically massive gravity. In each of these cases, the calculated values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-11 M. Blagojević , B. Cvetković

Einstein-Kalb-Ramond (EKR) gravity is an alternative theory in which a rank-two antisymmetric tensor field, the Kalb-Ramond field, is nonminimally coupled to gravity, potentially generating Lorentz-violating backgrounds. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhong-Xi Yu , Hong-Da Lyu , Mandula Huhe , Shoulong Li

By generalizing different recent works to the context of higher curvature gravity, we provide a unifying framework for three related results: (i) If an asymptotically AdS spacetime computes the entanglement entropies of ball-shaped regions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau

We consider two non-statistical definitions of entropy for dynamic (non-stationary) black holes in spherical symmetry. The first is analogous to the original Clausius definition of thermodynamic entropy: there is a first law containing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Sean A. Hayward , Shinji Mukohyama , M. C. Ashworth

The thermodynamic properties of black holes have been extensively studied through analogies with classical systems, revealing fundamental connections between gravitation, entropy, and quantum mechanics. In this work, we extend the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 S. D Campos

The first law of black hole mechanics has been the main motivation for investigating thermodynamic properties of black holes. The first version of this law was proved in \cite{Bardeen:1973gs} by considering perturbations of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Lorenzo Rossi