Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-10-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
PhD thesis, 96 pages, requires LaTeX2e with packages amstex and amssymb
Scientific paper
I generalize the quasilocal formulation of thermodynamics of Brown and York to include dilaton theories of gravity as well as Abelian and Yang-Mills gauge matter fields with possible dilaton couplings. The resulting formulation is applicable to a large class of theories including two-dimensional toy models and the low energy limit of string theory as well as to many types of matter such as massless scalar fields, electromagnetism, Yang-Mills fields, and matter induced cosmological constants. I use this formalism to evaluate the thermodynamic variables for several black hole spacetimes. I find that the formulation can handle black hole spacetimes that are not asymptotically flat as well as rotating black hole spacetimes, and black hole spacetimes possessing a dilaton field, an electric charge, and a magnetic charge.
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