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Main Authors: Xu, Yingnan, Chu, Shuangshuang
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27449
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author Xu, Yingnan
Chu, Shuangshuang
author_facet Xu, Yingnan
Chu, Shuangshuang
contents We study Carrollian limits of Schwarzschild-AdS black-hole thermodynamics using covariant phase space. Allowing the cosmological constant to vary, we derive the extended Iyer-Wald identity and identify the renormalized bulk term proportional to $δΛ$ with the generator-normalized thermodynamic volume contribution $V_ξ\,δP$. We show that the Carroll limit contracts the full thermodynamic phase space together with the metric. For fixed Newton constant, the Lorentzian generator $\partial_t$ collapses to a zero-norm direction as $c\to0$, yielding a degenerate sector with vanishing Hamiltonian variation, temperature and volume. Introducing $ξ_λ=c^{-α}\partial_t$ and $G=c^γG_C$, we find that the extended first law scales as $c^{1-α-γ}$, so finite phase-space contractions require $α+γ=1$. The endpoint $(α,γ)=(1,0)$, obtained by $τ=ct$, is the ordinary non-degenerate Lorentzian finite-clock normalization. Carrollian finite first laws lie on the segment $α<1$, hence $γ=1-α>0$, and give $T\to0$, $S\to\infty$, with finite $T\,δS$ and $V_ξ\,δP$. We test the scaling principle for fixed-charge and fixed-rotation AdS black holes, and extend it to arbitrary spacetime dimension within the Schwarzschild-AdS family.
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spellingShingle Phase-Space Contractions of Carrollian Black-Hole Thermodynamics
Xu, Yingnan
Chu, Shuangshuang
High Energy Physics - Theory
We study Carrollian limits of Schwarzschild-AdS black-hole thermodynamics using covariant phase space. Allowing the cosmological constant to vary, we derive the extended Iyer-Wald identity and identify the renormalized bulk term proportional to $δΛ$ with the generator-normalized thermodynamic volume contribution $V_ξ\,δP$. We show that the Carroll limit contracts the full thermodynamic phase space together with the metric. For fixed Newton constant, the Lorentzian generator $\partial_t$ collapses to a zero-norm direction as $c\to0$, yielding a degenerate sector with vanishing Hamiltonian variation, temperature and volume. Introducing $ξ_λ=c^{-α}\partial_t$ and $G=c^γG_C$, we find that the extended first law scales as $c^{1-α-γ}$, so finite phase-space contractions require $α+γ=1$. The endpoint $(α,γ)=(1,0)$, obtained by $τ=ct$, is the ordinary non-degenerate Lorentzian finite-clock normalization. Carrollian finite first laws lie on the segment $α<1$, hence $γ=1-α>0$, and give $T\to0$, $S\to\infty$, with finite $T\,δS$ and $V_ξ\,δP$. We test the scaling principle for fixed-charge and fixed-rotation AdS black holes, and extend it to arbitrary spacetime dimension within the Schwarzschild-AdS family.
title Phase-Space Contractions of Carrollian Black-Hole Thermodynamics
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27449