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Black holes and Boyle's Law --- the thermodynamics of Einstein's greatest mistake

Dolan, B. (2014). Black holes and Boyle's Law --- the thermodynamics of Einstein's greatest mistake. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/14050093

Brian Dolan Maynooth University

Talk numberPIRSA:14050093
DOI10.48660/14050093
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The thermodynamics of black holes will be reviewed and recent developments incorporating pressure into the first law described. The asymptotically AdS Kerr metric has a van der Waals type critical point with a line of first order phase transitions terminating at a critical point with mean field exponents. The phase structure and stability of black holes in higher dimensions will also be described.