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Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Recently, it has been shown that for out-of-equilibrium systems, there are additional constraints on thermodynamical evolution besides the ordinary second law. These form a new family of second laws of thermodynamics, which are equivalent to the monotonicity of quantum Rényi divergences. In black hole thermodynamics, the usual second law is manifest as the area increase theorem. Hence one may ask if these additional laws imply new restrictions for gravitational dynamics, such as for out-of-equilibrium black holes? Inspired by this question, we study these constraints within the AdS/CFT correspondence. First, we show that the Rényi divergence can be computed via a Euclidean path integral for a certain class of excited CFT states. Applying this construction to the boundary CFT, the Rényi divergence is evaluated as the renormalized action for a particular bulk solution of a minimally coupled gravity-scalar system. Further, within this framework, we show that there exist transitions whi...

Conformal tightness of holographic scaling in black hole thermodynamics

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2013

The near-horizon conformal symmetry of nonextremal black holes is shown to be a mandatory ingredient for the holographic scaling of the scalar-field contribution to the black hole entropy. This conformal tightness is revealed by semiclassical first-principle scaling arguments through an analysis of the multiplicative factors in the entropy due to the radial and angular degrees of freedom associated with a scalar field. Specifically, the conformal SO(2,1) invariance of the radial degree of freedom conspires with the area proportionality of the angular momentum sums to yield a robust holographic outcome.

Conformal enhancement of holographic scaling in black hole thermodynamics: a near-horizon heat-kernel framework

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007

Standard thermodynamic treatments of quantum field theory in the presence of black-hole backgrounds reproduce the black hole entropy by usually specializing to the leading order of the heat-kernel or the high-temperature expansion. By contrast, this work develops a hybrid framework centered on geometric spectral asymptotics whereby these assumptions are shown to be unwarranted insofar as black hole thermodynamics is concerned. The approach-consisting of the concurrent use of near-horizon and heatkernel asymptotic expansions-leads to a proof of the holographic scaling of the entropy as a universal feature driven by conformal quantum mechanics.

Black hole thermodynamics from near-horizon conformal quantum mechanics

Physical Review D, 2005

The thermodynamics of black holes is shown to be directly induced by their near-horizon conformal invariance. This behavior is exhibited using a scalar field as a probe of the black hole gravitational background, for a general class of metrics in D spacetime dimensions (with D ≥ 4). The ensuing analysis is based on conformal quantum mechanics, within a hierarchical near-horizon expansion. In particular, the leading conformal behavior provides the correct quantum statistical properties for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, with the near-horizon physics governing the thermodynamics from the outset. Most importantly: (i) this treatment reveals the emergence of holographic properties; (ii) the conformal coupling parameter is shown to be related to the Hawking temperature; and (iii) Schwarzschild-like coordinates, despite their "coordinate singularity," can be used self-consistently to describe the thermodynamics of black holes.

HOLOGRAPHIC GEOMETRIC ENTROPY AT FINITE TEMPERATURE FROM BLACK HOLES IN GLOBAL ANTI-DE SITTER SPACES

International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2012

Using a holographic proposal for the geometric entropy we study its behavior in the geometry of Schwarzschild black holes in global AdS p for p = 3, 4, 5. Holographically, the entropy is determined by a minimal surface. On the gravity side, due to the presence of a horizon on the background, generically there are two solutions to the surfaces determining the entanglement entropy. In the case of AdS 3 , the calculation reproduces precisely the geometric entropy of an interval of length l in a two dimensional conformal field theory with periodic boundary conditions. We demonstrate that in the cases of AdS 4 and AdS 5 the sign of the difference of the geometric entropies changes, signaling a transition. Euclideanization implies that various embedding of the holographic surface are possible. We study some of them and find that the transitions are ubiquitous. In particular, our analysis renders a very intricate phase space, showing, for some ranges of the temperature, up to three branches. We observe a remarkable universality in the type of results we obtain from AdS 4 and AdS 5 .

The first law of thermodynamics for Kerr–anti-de Sitter black holes

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2005

We obtain expressions for the mass and angular momenta of rotating black holes in anti-de Sitter backgrounds in four, five and higher dimensions. We verify explicitly that our expressions satisfy the first law of thermodynamics, thus allowing an unambiguous identification of the entropy of these black holes with 1 4 of the area. We find that the associated thermodynamic potential equals the background-subtracted Euclidean action multiplied by the temperature. Our expressions differ from many given in the literature. We find that in more than four dimensions, only our expressions satisfy the first law of thermodynamics. Moreover, in all dimensions we show that our expression for the mass coincides with that given by the conformal conserved charge introduced by Ashtekar, Magnon and Das. We indicate the relevance of these results to the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Thermodynamics of de Sitter black holes with a conformally coupled scalar field

Physical Review D, 2005

We study the thermodynamics of de Sitter black holes with a conformally coupled scalar field. The geometry is that of the "lukewarm" Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black holes, with the event and cosmological horizons at the same temperature. This means that the region between the event and cosmological horizons can form a regular Euclidean instanton. The entropy is modified by the non-minimal coupling of the scalar field to the geometry, but can still be derived from the Euclidean action, provided suitable modifications are made to deal with the electrically charged case. We use the first law as derived from the isolated horizons formalism to compute the local horizon energies for the event and cosmological horizons.

Holography, CFT and Black Hole Entropy

Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research, 2009

Aspects of holography or dimensional reduction in gravitational physics are discussed with reference to black hole thermodynamics. Degrees of freedom living on Isolated Horizons (as a model for macroscopic, generic, eternal black hole horizons) are argued to be topological in nature and counted, using their relation to two dimensional conformal field theories. This leads to the microcanonical entropy of these black holes having the Bekenstein-Hawking form together with finite, unambigious quantum spacetime corrections. Another aspect of holography ensues for radiant black holes treated as a standard canonical ensemble with Isolated Horizons as the mean (equilibrium) configuration. This is shown to yield a universal criterion for thermal stability of generic radiant black holes, as a lower bound on the mass of the equilibrium isolated horizon in terms of its microcanonical entropy. Saturation of the bound occurs at a phase boundary separating thermally stable and unstable phases with symptoms of a first order phase transition.

Generalized holographic cosmology

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2013

We consider general black hole solutions in five-dimensional spacetime in the presence of a negative cosmological constant. We obtain a cosmological evolution via the gravity/gauge theory duality (holography) by defining appropriate boundary conditions on a four-dimensional boundary hypersurface. The standard counterterms are shown to renormalize the bare parameters of the system (the four-dimensional Newton's constant and cosmological constant). We discuss the thermodynamics of cosmological evolution and present various examples. The standard braneworld scenarios are shown to be special cases of our holographic construction. †