Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-12-13
Phys.Rev.D84:024037,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
29 pages, minor corrections
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.024037
In a theory where the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ or the gauge coupling constant $g$ arises as the vacuum expectation value, its variation should be included in the first law of thermodynamics for black holes. This becomes $dE= TdS + \Omega_i dJ_i + \Phi_\alpha d Q_\alpha + \Theta d \Lambda$, where $E$ is now the enthalpy of the spacetime, and $\Theta$, the thermodynamic conjugate of $\Lambda$, is proportional to an effective volume $V = -\frac{16 \pi \Theta}{D-2}$ "inside the event horizon." Here we calculate $\Theta$ and $V$ for a wide variety of $D$-dimensional charged rotating asymptotically AdS black hole spacetimes, using the first law or the Smarr relation. We compare our expressions with those obtained by implementing a suggestion of Kastor, Ray and Traschen, involving Komar integrals and Killing potentials, which we construct from conformal Killing-Yano tensors. We conjecture that the volume $V$ and the horizon area $A$ satisfy the inequality $R\equiv ((D-1)V/{\cal A}_{D-2})^{1/(D-1)}\, ({\cal A}_{D-2}/A)^{1/(D-2)}\ge1$, where ${\cal A}_{D-2}$ is the volume of the unit $(D-2)$-sphere, and we show that this is obeyed for a wide variety of black holes, and saturated for Schwarzschild-AdS. Intriguingly, this inequality is the "inverse" of the isoperimetric inequality for a volume $V$ in Euclidean $(D-1)$ space bounded by a surface of area $A$, for which $R\le 1$. Our conjectured {\it Reverse Isoperimetric Inequality} can be interpreted as the statement that the entropy inside a horizon of a given "volume" $V$ is maximised for Schwarzschild-AdS. The thermodynamic definition of $V$ requires a cosmological constant (or gauge coupling constant). However, except in 7 dimensions, a smooth limit exists where $\Lambda$ or $g$ goes to zero, providing a definition of $V$ even for asymptotically-flat black holes.
Cvetic Mirjam
Gibbons Gary W.
Kubiznak David
Pope Christopher N.
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