Dolan, Brian P. (2012) Where is the PdV term in the first law of black hole thermodynamics? In: Open Questions in Cosmology. InTech. ISBN 978-953-51-0880-1

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Abstract

Traditional treatments of the first law of black hole thermodynamic s do not include a discussion of pressure and volume. We give an overview of re cent developments proposing a definition of volume that can be used to ex tend the first law to include these appropriately. New results are also pre senting relating to the critical point and the associated second order phas e transition for a rotating black-hole in four-dimensional space-time which is asy mptot- ically anti-de Sitter. In line with known results for a non-rotating cha rged black-hole, this phase transition is shown to be of Van der Waals type with mean field exponents

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	PdV term; black hole thermodynamics;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematical Physics
Item ID:	4242
Depositing User:	Dr. Brian Dolan
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2013 15:41
Publisher:	InTech
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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