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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 105, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.126021
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0015655]
- DOE Office of High Energy Physics QuantISED program
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0015655] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
This paper discusses the issue of Euclidean continuation for Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes and proposes modifications to the gravitational path integral. By modifying the boundary conditions to construct the microcanonical partition function, two ensembles are brought into contact and the boundary is removed to produce closed systems containing both a black hole and a cosmological horizon.
Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black holes do not admit a completely smooth Euclidean continuation. We discuss some modifications of the gravitational path integral that give Euclidean SdS a semiclassical equilibrium interpretation. First we consider ???gravity in a cavity,??? defining the canonical ensemble in a box that excises one horizon. However, this standard approach does not work for positive cosmological constant: the solution of lowest free energy has a negative heat capacity, which is inconsistent if it is to provide the leading semiclassical contribution to a canonical partition function. Instead we modify the boundary conditions in the path integral to construct the microcanonical partition function, which appears to be well-defined. We then bring two ensembles into contact and remove the boundary, producing states of a larger microcanonical ensemble that contain, for example, both a black hole and a cosmological horizon at once. These systems are closed and have no boundary, but they must possess some form of mild metric discontinuity. We discuss the case where the discontinuity is equivalent to the insertion of a thin, rigid membrane, separating two systems that can exchange energy and are at local equilibrium. Equilibrium configurations obtained in this way are found to be thermodynamically unstable if they contain a black hole.
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