Why is black hole entropy affected by rotation?

Oct 21, 2022
32 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (2023) 072
  • Published: Feb 7, 2023
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Abstract: (Springer)
It is well known that an asymptotically flat four-dimensional Kerr black hole has a smaller (specific) entropy than a Schwarzschild black hole of the same mass. We show here that the same is true if the temperature, rather than the mass, is held fixed; and we also show that an asymptotically AdS5_{5}-Kerr black hole has a smaller specific entropy than an AdS5_{5}-Schwarzschild black hole of the same temperature, except in a negligibly small class of special examples. The AdS5_{5}-Kerr case is particularly interesting, because here the gauge-gravity duality applies; if we further accept that there is a useful analogy between the strongly coupled field theories dual to AdS black holes and the best-understood example of a strongly coupled fluid (the Quark-Gluon Plasma), then we can apply QGP theory to predict the behaviour of black hole entropy in this case. The prediction agrees with our study of AdS5_{5}-Kerr entropy. The hope is that such results might lead ultimately to an identification of black hole microstates.
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  • Added a useful reference (arXiv:2010.03575 [hep-th]); 32 pages, 12 figures
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Black Holes
  • black hole: entropy
  • dimension: 4
  • dimension: 5
  • black hole: Kerr
  • black hole: Schwarzschild
  • black hole: anti-de Sitter
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • gravitation: duality