Thermodynamics of Many Black Holes

Gregory, Ruth; Lim, Zheng Liang; Scoins, Andrew

doi:10.3389/fphy.2021.666041

Thermodynamics of Many Black Holes

Gregory, Ruth; Lim, Zheng Liang; Scoins, Andrew

Authors

Ruth Gregory

Zheng Liang Lim

Andrew David Scoins andrew.d.scoins@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

Abstract

We discuss the thermodynamics of an array of collinear black holes which may be accelerating. We prove a general First Law, including variations in the tensions of strings linking and accelerating the black holes. We analyse the implications of the First Law in a number of instructive cases, including that of the C-metric, and relate our findings to the previously obtained thermodynamics of slowly accelerating black holes in anti-de Sitter spacetime. The concept of thermodynamic length is found to be robust and a Christoudoulou-Ruffini formula for the C-metric is shown.

Citation

Gregory, R., Lim, Z. L., & Scoins, A. (2021). Thermodynamics of Many Black Holes. Frontiers in Physics, 9, Article 666041. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.666041

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 25, 2021
Online Publication Date	Apr 22, 2021
Publication Date	2021
Deposit Date	Aug 30, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Nov 15, 2021
Journal	Frontiers in Physics
Publisher	Frontiers Media
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	9
Article Number	666041
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.666041
Related Public URLs	frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.666041/full

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