Thermodynamics of Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black hole

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Auteurs principaux: Hu, Li, Cai, Rong-Gen, Wang, Shao-Jiang
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author Hu, Li
Cai, Rong-Gen
Wang, Shao-Jiang
author_facet Hu, Li
Cai, Rong-Gen
Wang, Shao-Jiang
contents We investigate the thermodynamic properties of the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black hole, an exact Petrov type D solution of Einstein-Maxwell theory describing a rotating black hole immersed in an external electromagnetic field. While the conserved angular momentum and electric charge can be computed straightforwardly, the conserved mass cannot be obtained through standard integrability methods due to the nontrivial asymptotically uniform external electromagnetic field. To overcome this difficulty, we adopt the Christodoulou-Ruffini mass relation as a thermodynamic definition of the conserved mass, and identify the associated generator, thereby fixing the ambiguity in defining this conserved mass and constructing the thermodynamic potentials. These thermodynamic quantities naturally satisfy the first law of black-hole thermodynamics as well as the Smarr formula.
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spellingShingle Thermodynamics of Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black hole
Hu, Li
Cai, Rong-Gen
Wang, Shao-Jiang
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We investigate the thermodynamic properties of the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black hole, an exact Petrov type D solution of Einstein-Maxwell theory describing a rotating black hole immersed in an external electromagnetic field. While the conserved angular momentum and electric charge can be computed straightforwardly, the conserved mass cannot be obtained through standard integrability methods due to the nontrivial asymptotically uniform external electromagnetic field. To overcome this difficulty, we adopt the Christodoulou-Ruffini mass relation as a thermodynamic definition of the conserved mass, and identify the associated generator, thereby fixing the ambiguity in defining this conserved mass and constructing the thermodynamic potentials. These thermodynamic quantities naturally satisfy the first law of black-hole thermodynamics as well as the Smarr formula.
title Thermodynamics of Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black hole
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18821