Explicit black hole thermodynamics in natural variables
arXiv:2304.07320 · doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2023)003
Abstract
We consider the general thermal asymptotically flat Kerr-Newman black holes in 4d Einstein-Maxwell theory. Even though their thermodynamics has been understood for decades, the Gibbs free energy and on-shell action are only known implicitly as functions of the standard chemical potentials. Using the so-called left and right moving (or holomorphic and anti-holomorphic) variables related to the chemical potentials on both the outer and the inner horizons, we are able to present explicit and very simple expressions for all quantities. We discuss various limits in the parameter space, remarkably finding a smooth BPS limit allowing direct access to the extremal surface. In the BPS limit the anti-holomorphic part of the on-shell action vanishes identically, leading automatically to the holomorphic expression expected microscopically. This gives us confidence that the newly defined thermal partition function in terms of these variables is the natural candidate for a full microscopic description.
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