scholarly journals Cosmological solutions, a new wick-rotation, and the first law of thermodynamics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gutowski ◽  
T. Mohaupt ◽  
G. Pope

Abstract We present a modified implementation of the Euclidean action formalism suitable for studying the thermodynamics of a class of cosmological solutions containing Killing horizons. To obtain a real metric of definite signature, we perform a “triple Wick-rotation” by analytically continuing all spacelike directions. The resulting Euclidean geometry is used to calculate the Euclidean on-shell action, which defines a thermodynamic potential. We show that for the vacuum de Sitter solution, planar solutions of Einstein-Maxwell theory and a previously found class of cosmological solutions of $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 supergravity, this thermodynamic potential can be used to define an internal energy which obeys the first law of thermodynamics. Our approach is complementary to, but consistent with the isolated horizon formalism. For planar Einstein-Maxwell solutions, we find dual solutions in Einstein-anti-Maxwell theory where the sign of the Maxwell term is reversed. These solutions are planar black holes, rather than cosmological solutions, but give rise, upon a standard Wick-rotation to the same Euclidean action and thermodynamic relations.

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milko Estrada ◽  
Rodrigo Aros

Abstract In this work it is shown that the thermodynamics of regular black holes with a cosmological horizon, which are solutions of Lovelock gravity, determines that they must evolve either into a state where the black hole and cosmological horizons have reached thermal equilibrium or into an extreme black hole geometry where the black hole and cosmological horizons have merged. This differs from the behavior of Schwarzschild de Sitter geometry which evolves into a de Sitter space, the ground state of the space of solutions. This occurs due to a phase transition of the heat capacity of the black hole horizon. To perform that analysis it is shown that at each horizon a local first law of thermodynamics can be obtained from the gravitational equations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huai-Fan Li ◽  
Meng-Sen Ma ◽  
Ya-Qin Ma

We study the thermodynamic properties of Schwarzschild–de Sitter (SdS) black hole and Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter (RNdS) black hole in view of global and effective thermodynamic quantities. Making use of the effective first law of thermodynamics, we can derive the effective thermodynamic quantities of de Sitter black holes. It is found that these effective thermodynamic quantities also satisfy Smarr-like formula. Especially, the effective temperatures are nonzero in the Nariai limit. By calculating heat capacity and Gibbs free energy, we find SdS black hole is always thermodynamically stable and RNdS black hole may undergoes phase transition at some points.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (23) ◽  
pp. 1487-1492 ◽  
Author(s):  
BO-BO WANG ◽  
CHAO-GUANG HUANG

The York's formalism of path-integral approach to the thermodynamics of black holes is applied to de Sitter space–time. The first law of thermodynamics for de Sitter space–time is given, which includes a "work term" with respect to the cosmological constant.


2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1503-1526 ◽  
Author(s):  
G W Gibbons ◽  
M J Perry ◽  
C N Pope

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (06) ◽  
pp. 1550040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Hossein Hendi

In this paper, we consider third-order Lovelock–Maxwell gravity with additional (Fμν Fμν)2 term as a nonlinearity correction of the Maxwell theory. We obtain black hole solutions with various horizon topologies (and various number of horizons) in which their asymptotical behavior can be flat or anti-de Sitter with an effective cosmological constant. We investigate the effects of Lovelock and electrodynamic corrections on properties of the solutions. Then, we restrict ourselves to asymptotically flat solutions and calculate the conserved and thermodynamic quantities. We check the first law of thermodynamics for these black hole solutions and calculate the heat capacity to analyze stability. Although higher dimensional black holes in Einstein gravity are unstable, here we look for suitable constraints on the black hole radius to find thermally stable black hole solutions.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1773-1783 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. SHEYKHI ◽  
H. ALAVIRAD

We derive a new analytic solution of (n + 1)-dimensional (n ≥ 4) Brans–Dicke–Maxwell theory in the presence of a potential for the scalar field, by applying a conformal transformation to the dilaton gravity theory. Such solutions describe topological charged black holes with unusual asymptotics. We obtain the conserved and thermodynamic quantities through the use of the Euclidean action method. We also study the thermodynamics of the solutions and verify that the conserved and thermodynamic quantities of the solutions satisfy the first law of black hole thermodynamics.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (18) ◽  
pp. 3091-3105 ◽  
Author(s):  
PENG CHEN

Thermodynamic geometry is applied to the Born–Infeld–anti-de Sitter black hole (BIAdS) in the four dimensions, which is a nonlinear generalization of the Reissner–Nordström–AdS black hole (RNAdS). We compute the Weinhold as well as the Ruppeiner scalar curvature and find that the singular points are not the same with the ones obtained using the heat capacity. Legendre-invariant metric proposed by Quevedo and the metric obtained by using the free energy as the thermodynamic potential are obtained and the corresponding scalar curvatures diverge at the Davies points.


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