Horizon thermodynamics and gravitational field equations in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity

Rong-Gen Cai and Nobuyoshi Ohta
Phys. Rev. D 81, 084061 – Published 30 April 2010

Abstract

We explore the relationship between the first law of thermodynamics and gravitational field equation at a static, spherically symmetric black hole horizon in Hořava-Lifshitz theory with/without detailed balance. It turns out that as in the cases of Einstein gravity and Lovelock gravity, the gravitational field equation can be cast to a form of the first law of thermodynamics at the black hole horizon. This way we obtain the expressions for entropy and mass in terms of black hole horizon, consistent with those from other approaches. We also define a generalized Misner-Sharp energy for static, spherically symmetric spacetimes in Hořava-Lifshitz theory. The generalized Misner-Sharp energy is conserved in the case without matter field, and its variation gives the first law of black hole thermodynamics at the black hole horizon.

  • Received 10 January 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084061

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Rong-Gen Cai1,2,* 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
  • ohtan@phys.kindai.ac.jp

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Vol. 81, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2010

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