Black holes without mass and entropy in Lovelock gravity
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502 (Japan)
- 2. Key Laboratory of Frontiers in Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100190 (China)
Description
We present a class of new black hole solutions in D-dimensional Lovelock gravity theory. The solutions have a form of direct product MmxHn, where D=m+n, Hn is a negative constant curvature space, and the solutions are characterized by two integration constants. When m=3 and 4, these solutions reduce to the exact black hole solutions recently found by Maeda and Dadhich in Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory. We study thermodynamics of these black hole solutions. Although these black holes have a nonvanishing Hawking temperature, surprisingly, the mass of these solutions always vanishes. While the entropy also vanishes when m is odd, it is a constant determined by an Euler characteristic of (m-2)-dimensional cross section of black hole horizon when m is even. We argue that the constant in the entropy should be thrown away. Namely, when m is even, the entropy of these black holes also should vanish. We discuss the implications of these results.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.024018;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0911.0245v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 81
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 024018-024018.12
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42002243
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BLACK HOLES; CROSS SECTIONS; ENTROPY; GRAVITATION; MASS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2010 The American Physical Society