The temperature and free energy of multi-black hole systems

Abstract

In the present paper, we compute the Euclidean action of a generic system consisting of $N$ arbitrary Kerr-Newman black holes located on the symmetry axis and separated from each other by massless struts. This allows us to introduce the {\it Hawking average temperature} (HAT) $\hat{T}$ of the multi-black hole system via the condition of vanishing the entire set of terms involving the singular horizons due to periodic time, and the resulting formula for this temperature contains solely the surface gravities ${\kappa }_i$ and horizon areas $A_i^H$ of the black hole constituents. We also show that the corresponding expression for the {\it free energy} of the system defined by $\hat{T}$ is consistent with the first law of thermodynamics and Smarr mass relations.

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