3 papers
gr-qc2024
Gravitational Effective Field Theories and Black Hole Mechanics
Iain Davies
This PhD thesis is submitted to arXiv as a pedagogical resource on gravitational effective field theories and the laws of black hole mechanics. It begins with an introduction to th…
hep-th2024
A non-perturbative second law of black hole mechanics in effective field theory
Iain Davies, Harvey S. Reall
We describe a method for defining dynamical black hole entropy in gravitational effective field theories (EFTs). The entropy is constructed order by order in derivatives. For any f…
gr-qc2024
The 0th and 2nd Laws of Black Hole Mechanics in Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Effective Field Theory
Iain Davies
There has been recent progress in extending the 0th and 2nd laws of black hole mechanics to gravitational effective field theories (EFTs). We generalize these results to a much lar…