TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermodynamics of Many Black Holes
AU - Gregory, Ruth
AU - Lim, Zheng Liang
AU - Scoins, Andrew
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the STFC (Consolidated Grant ST/P000371/1—RG, DTG—AS), and by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (RG). Research at Perimeter Institute is supported by the Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science.
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Gregory, Lim and Scoins.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/4/22
Y1 - 2021/4/22
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.3389/fphy.2021.666041
DO - 10.3389/fphy.2021.666041
M3 - Article
VL - 9
JO - Frontiers in Physics
JF - Frontiers in Physics
M1 - 666041
ER -