13–17 Jul 2026
Kyung Hee University
Asia/Seoul timezone

Attractor mechanism : Trio of effective black hole potential, entropy functional and Routhian

13 Jul 2026, 16:50
20m
Kyung Hee University

Kyung Hee University

26, Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447

Speaker

Dr Sourav Roychowdhury (Department of Physics & Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University)

Description

In this talk we discuss various aspects of the effective dynamics of Maxwell-Einstein scalar theories in the background of static, spherically symmetric and extremal black hole solution in (1+3) dimensions. We show that the effective one dimensional action (governed by the Attractor mechanism) from which the effective black hole potential (introduced by Ferrara-Gibbons-Kallosh) is usually computed, is the one dimensional effective Routhian of the original (1+3)d action.

We further discuss the interplay of this Routhian framework, black hole potential and Sen's entropy functional approach, enabling one to compute the black hole entropy.

Authors

Dr Sourav Roychowdhury (Department of Physics & Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University) Dr Arghya Chattopadhyay (Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez) Dr Alessio Marrani (Centre for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Hertfordshire)

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