Black holes without mass and entropy in Lovelock gravity

Rong-Gen Cai, Li-Ming Cao, and Nobuyoshi Ohta
Phys. Rev. D 81, 024018 – Published 19 January 2010

Abstract

We present a class of new black hole solutions in D-dimensional Lovelock gravity theory. The solutions have a form of direct product Mm×Hn, where D=m+n, Hn is a negative constant curvature space, and the solutions are characterized by two integration constants. When m=3 and 4, these solutions reduce to the exact black hole solutions recently found by Maeda and Dadhich in Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory. We study thermodynamics of these black hole solutions. Although these black holes have a nonvanishing Hawking temperature, surprisingly, the mass of these solutions always vanishes. While the entropy also vanishes when m is odd, it is a constant determined by an Euler characteristic of (m2)-dimensional cross section of black hole horizon when m is even. We argue that the constant in the entropy should be thrown away. Namely, when m is even, the entropy of these black holes also should vanish. We discuss the implications of these results.

  • Received 8 November 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.024018

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Rong-Gen Cai1,2,*, Li-Ming Cao2,†, and Nobuyoshi Ohta2,‡

  • 1Key Laboratory of Frontiers in Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2Department of Physics, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan

  • *cairg@itp.ac.cn
  • caolm@phys.kindai.ac.jp
  • ohtan@phys.kindai.ac.jp

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Vol. 81, Iss. 2 — 15 January 2010

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