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Isolated critical point from Lovelock gravity

Journal

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 31, Issue 24, Pages -

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/24/242001

Keywords

black hole thermodynamics; critical phenomena; phase transitions

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  1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  2. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  3. Government of Canada through Industry Canada
  4. Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation

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For any K (= 2k + 1)th order Lovelock gravity with fine-tuned Lovelock couplings, we demonstrate the existence of a special isolated critical point characterized by non-standard critical exponents in the phase diagram of hyperbolic vacuum black holes. In the Gibbs free energy, this corresponds to a place wherefrom two swallowtails emerge, giving rise to two first-order phase transitions between small and large black holes. We believe that this is a first example of a critical point with non-standard critical exponents obtained in a geometric theory of gravity.

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