Dolan, Brian P., Kastor, David, Kubiznak, David, Mann, Robert B. and Traschen, Jennie (2012) Thermodynamic Volumes and Isoperimetric Inequalities for de Sitter Black Holes. Working Paper. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies DIAS-STP-13-01.
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Abstract
We consider the thermodynamics of rotating and charged asymptotically de Sitter black holes.
Using Hamiltonian perturbation theory techniques, we derive three different first law relations including
variations in the cosmological constant, and associated Smarr formulas that are satisfied
by such spacetimes. Each first law introduces a different thermodynamic volume conjugate to the
cosmological constant. We examine the relation between these thermodynamic volumes and associated
geometric volumes in a number of examples, including Kerr-dS black holes in all dimensions
and Kerr-Newman-dS black holes in D = 4. We also show that the Chong-Cvetic-Lu-Pope solution
of D = 5 minimal supergravity, analytically continued to positive cosmological constant, describes
black hole solutions of the Einstein-Chern-Simons theory and include such charged asymptotically
de Sitter black holes in our analysis. In all these examples we find that the particular thermodynamic
volume associated with the region between the black hole and cosmological horizons is equal
to the naive geometric volume. Isoperimetric inequalities, which hold in the examples considered,
are formulated for the different thermodynamic volumes and conjectured to remain valid for all
asymptotically de Sitter black holes. In particular, in all examples considered, we find that for fixed
volume of the observable universe, the entropy is increased by adding black holes. We conjecture
that this is true in general.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Additional Information: | We would like to thank Mirjam Cvetic for helpful discussions, Gary W. Gibbons for useful comments and reading the manuscript, and the anonymous referee for suggesting we investigate the Nariai limit. This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Mann) and was supported in part by NSF grant PHY-0555304 (Kastor and Traschen). Kastor, Kubiznak, and Traschen thank the Benasque Center for Theoretical Physics, at which this work was started, for their hospitality. Traschen thanks the Perimeter Institute, at which this work was mostly completed, for their hospitality. |
Keywords: | Thermodynamic Volumes; Isoperimetric Inequalities; de Sitter Black Holes; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematical Physics |
Item ID: | 4446 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Brian Dolan |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2013 13:25 |
Publisher: | Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies DIAS-STP-13-01 |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/4446 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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