Black hole chemistry : thermodynamics of hairy black holes in lovelock gravity

• Main Author: Tjoa, Erickson
• Other Authors: Chew Lock Yue
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics::Heat and thermodynamics; DRNTU::Science::Physics::Atomic physics::Relativity physics; DRNTU::Science::Physics::Atomic physics::Statistical physics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70359
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this final year project I explore black hole thermodynamics in the context of black hole chemistry. In this framework, the usual black hole thermodynamic phase space is extended to include cosmological constant as thermodynamic pressure. This allows one to study black hole thermodynamics th...