Temperature, Energy, and Heat Capacity of Asymptotically Anti-De Sitter Black Holes

Details Temperature, Energy, and Heat Capacity of Asymptotically Anti-De Sitter Black Holes Temperature, Energy, and Heat Capacity of Asymptotically Anti-De Sitter Black Holes

1994-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9405007v1

Phys.Rev. D50 (1994) 6394-6403

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

(21 pages, Plain TeX)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.50.6394

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of black holes in (3+1) and (2+1) dimensional Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant. In each case, the thermodynamic internal energy is computed for a finite spatial region that contains the black hole. The temperature at the boundary of this region is defined by differentiating the energy with respect to entropy, and is equal to the product of the surface gravity (divided by~$2\pi$) and the Tolman redshift factor for temperature in a stationary gravitational field. We also compute the thermodynamic surface pressure and, in the case of the (2+1) black hole, show that the chemical potential conjugate to angular momentum is equal to the proper angular velocity of the black hole with respect to observers who are at rest in the stationary time slices. In (3+1) dimensions, a calculation of the heat capacity reveals the existence of a thermodynamically stable black hole solution and a negative heat capacity instanton. This result holds in the limit that the spatial boundary tends to infinity only if the comological constant is negative; if the cosmological constant vanishes, the stable black hole solution is lost. In (2+1) dimensions, a calculation of the heat capacity reveals the existence of a thermodynamically stable black hole solution, but no negative heat capacity instanton.

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