2–7 Jun 2019
Simon Fraser University
America/Vancouver timezone
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New thermodynamic identities for five-dimensional black holes

4 Jun 2019, 08:30
30m
SCB 9242 (Simon Fraser University)

SCB 9242

Simon Fraser University

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) T1-9 General Relativity II (DTP) | Relativité générale II (DPT)

Speaker

Dr Hari Kunduri (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Description

Stationary black hole solutions of classical general relativity satisfy certain identities relating their mass, angular momenta, and charge which are in close analogy with familiar thermodynamic laws. In this talk I will describe new identities for the physical variables of five-dimensional, asymptotically flat, stationary vacuum black holes. Unlike the well known Smarr relation, these identities depend on the topology of the black hole spacetime. The proof employs the harmonic map (sigma model) formulation of the vacuum Einstein equations for solutions in the presence of symmetries.

Primary author

Dr Hari Kunduri (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland)

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