dc.contributor.author | Brenna, Wilson | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-16 19:55:34 (GMT) | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-16 19:55:34 (GMT) | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-06-16 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2016-06-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10554 | |
dc.description.abstract | In my thesis, I describe new results in the thermodynamics of black holes in two gravitational scenarios: spacetime anisotropy and higher curvature gravity. I focus on classifying the critical point of "Large Black Hole / Small Black Hole" phase transitions in higher curvature gravity in various dimensions, for both numerical and analytic black hole solutions. Special emphasis will be placed on five-dimensional cubic and quartic quasitopological gravity. I cover the motivation and document a number of higher curvature black hole solutions as well as the thermodynamic behaviour of these black holes when they are asymptotically Lifshitz symmetric (a form of anisotropy). I describe the methodology used to construct the set of thermodynamic potentials for black holes with general asymptotics from a collection of well-justified conjectures, followed by the development of procedures to numerically and analytically determine unknown quantities such as mass and thermodynamic volume from these conjectures. I will complete this thesis by extracting the critical exponents and thereby finding the universality class of the critical behaviour for a number of black hole solutions. This work has implications for the study of the gauge/gravity duality as well as for the dynamical behaviour of black holes. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
dc.subject | hep-th | en |
dc.subject | gr-qc | en |
dc.subject | theoretical physics | en |
dc.title | Thermodynamics and Universality in Anisotropic Higher Curvature Spacetimes | en |
dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | en |
dc.pending | false | |
uws-etd.degree.department | Physics and Astronomy | en |
uws-etd.degree.discipline | Physics | en |
uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
uws-etd.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
uws.contributor.advisor | Mann, Robert | |
uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Science | en |
uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
uws.published.country | Canada | en |
uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |
uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |