arXiv Open Access 2022

The second law of black hole mechanics in effective field theory

Stefan Hollands Áron D. Kovács Harvey S. Reall

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We investigate the second law of black hole mechanics in gravitational theories with higher derivative terms in the action. Wall has described a method for defining an entropy that satisfies the second law to linear order in perturbations around a stationary black hole. We show that this can be extended to define an entropy that satisfies the second law to quadratic order in perturbations, provided that one treats the higher derivative terms in the sense of effective field theory. We also address some outstanding issues with Wall's method, in particular, its gauge invariance and its relation to the Iyer-Wald entropy.

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hep-th gr-qc

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Stefan Hollands

Áron D. Kovács

Harvey S. Reall

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Hollands, S., Kovács, Á.D., Reall, H.S. (2022). The second law of black hole mechanics in effective field theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15341

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Tahun Terbit: 2022
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓