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Phys. Rev. D 80, 024003 (2009) [7 pages]

Topological black holes in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity

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Rong-Gen Cai1,*, Li-Ming Cao2,†, and Nobuyoshi Ohta3,‡
1Key Laboratory of Frontiers in Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100190, China and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100190, China
2Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 790-784, Korea
3Department of Physics, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan

Received 29 April 2009; published 6 July 2009

We find topological (charged) black holes whose horizon has an arbitrary constant scalar curvature 2k in Hořava-Lifshitz theory. Without loss of generality, one may take k=1, 0, and -1. The black hole solution is asymptotically anti–de Sitter with a nonstandard asymptotic behavior. Using the Hamiltonian approach, we define a finite mass associated with the solution. We discuss the thermodynamics of the topological black holes and find that the black hole entropy has a logarithmic term in addition to an area term. We find a duality in Hawking temperature between topological black holes in Hořava-Lifshitz theory and Einstein’s general relativity: the temperature behaviors of black holes with k=1, 0, and -1 in Hořava-Lifshitz theory are, respectively, dual to those of topological black holes with k=-1, 0, and 1 in Einstein’s general relativity. The topological black holes in Hořava-Lifshitz theory are thermodynamically stable.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.024003
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.024003
PACS:
04.70.Dy

*cairg@itp.ac.cn

caolm@apctp.org

ohtan@phys.kindai.ac.jp