Speaker
Wilson Brenna
(University of Waterloo)
Description
The definition of a meaningful thermodynamic mass (appearing in the first law and the Smarr relation, when a cosmological constant is taken into account) is a difficult concept in Lifshitz symmetric spacetimes, due in part to the boundary conditions that need to be satisfied. Knowing such a mass opens up opportunities for examining the critical behaviour of these black holes which is interesting in a gauge/gravity context.
Here we discuss our attempts at formulating a mass for some exact Lifshitz symmetric black hole solutions.
Author
Wilson Brenna
(University of Waterloo)
Co-authors
Dr
Miok Park
(Sogang University)
Dr
Robert Mann
(University of Waterloo)
