Gravitational pressure on event horizons and thermodynamics in the teleparallel framework
Abstract
The concept of gravitational pressure is naturally defined in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity. Together with the definition of gravitational energy, we investigate the thermodynamics of rotating black holes in the teleparallel framework. We obtain the value of the gravitational pressure over the external event horizon of the Kerr black hole, and write an expression for the thermodynamic relation TdS=dE+pdV, where the variations refer to the Penrose process for the Kerr black hole. We employ only the notions of gravitational energy and pressure that arise in teleparallel gravity, and do not make any consideration of the area or the variation of the area of the event horizon. However, our results are qualitatively similar to the standard expression of the literature.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- February 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.044050
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1202.4995
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvD..85d4050M
- Keywords:
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- 04.20.-q;
- 04.20.Cv;
- 04.70.Dy;
- Classical general relativity;
- Fundamental problems and general formalism;
- Quantum aspects of black holes evaporation thermodynamics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, 6 figures