Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-09-18
Phys.Rev.D65:084014,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Revtex, 17 pages with 9 eps figures, v2: section II removed and references added, the version to appear in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.084014
We study thermodynamic properties and phase structures of topological black holes in Einstein theory with a Gauss-Bonnet term and a negative cosmological constant. The event horizon of these topological black holes can be a hypersurface with positive, zero or negative constant curvature. When the horizon is a zero curvature hypersurface, the thermodynamic properties of black holes are completely the same as those of black holes without the Gauss-Bonnet term, although the two black hole solutions are quite different. When the horizon is a negative constant curvature hypersurface, the thermodynamic properties of the Gauss-Bonnet black holes are qualitatively similar to those of black holes without the Gauss-Bonnet term. When the event horizon is a hypersurface with positive constant curvature, we find that the thermodynamic properties and phase structures of black holes drastically depend on the spacetime dimension $d$ and the coefficient of the Gauss-Bonnet term: when $d\ge 6$, the properties of black hole are also qualitatively similar to the case without the Gauss-Bonnet term, but when $d=5$, a new phase of locally stable small black hole occurs under a critical value of the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient, and beyond the critical value, the black holes are always thermodynamically stable. However, the locally stable small black hole is not globally preferred, instead a thermal anti-de Sitter space is globally preferred. We find that there is a minimal horizon radius, below which the Hawking-Page phase transition will not occur since for these black holes the thermal anti de Sitter space is always globally preferred.
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