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Geometry of AdS-Melvin Spacetimes
David Kastor, Jennie Traschen
We study asymptotically AdS generalizations of Melvin spacetimes, describing gravitationally bound tubes of magnetic flux. We find that narrow fluxtubes, carrying strong magnetic f…
Schottky Anomaly of deSitter Black Holes
Jack Dinsmore, Patrick Draper, David Kastor +2
The interplay of black hole and cosmological horizons introduces distinctive thermodynamic behavior for deSitter black holes, including well-known upper bounds for the mass and ent…
Black Hole Enthalpy and Scalar Fields
David Kastor, Sourya Ray, Jennie Traschen
The mass of an AdS black hole represents its enthalpy, which in addition to internal energy, generally includes the energy required to assemble the system in its environment. In th…
Evolving Black Holes in Inflation
Ruth Gregory, David Kastor, Jennie Traschen
We present an analytic, perturbative solution to the Einstein equations with a scalar field that describes dynamical black holes in a slow-roll inflationary cosmology. We show that…
Black Hole Thermodynamics with Dynamical Lambda
Ruth Gregory, David Kastor, Jennie Traschen
We study evolution and thermodynamics of a slow-roll transition between early and late time de Sitter phases, both in the homogeneous case and in the presence of a black hole, in a…
Lovelock Branes
David Kastor, Sourya Ray, Jennie Traschen
We study the problem of finding brane-like solutions to Lovelock gravity, adopting a general approach to establish conditions that a lower dimensional base metric must satisfy in o…