M M Akbar and Saurya Das 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 1383 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/6/007
M M Akbar1 and Saurya Das2,3
Show affiliationsA Schwarzschild black hole being thermodynamically unstable, corrections to its entropy due to small thermal fluctuations cannot be computed. However, a thermodynamically stable Schwarzschild solution can be obtained within a cavity of any finite radius by immersing it in an isothermal bath. For these boundary conditions, classically there are either two black-hole solutions or no solution. In the former case, the larger mass solution has a positive specific heat and hence is locally thermodynamically stable. We find that the entropy of this black hole, including first-order fluctuation corrections, is given by:
, where SBH = A/4 is its Bekenstein–Hawking entropy and R is the radius of the cavity. We extend our results to four-dimensional Reissner–Nordström black holes, for which the corresponding expression is: 
. Finally, we generalize the stability analysis to Reissner–Nordström black holes in arbitrary spacetime dimensions, and compute their leading order entropy corrections. In contrast to previously studied examples, we find that the entropy corrections in these cases have a different character.
04.70.Dy Quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics
Issue 6 (21 March 2004)
Received 11 November 2003
Published 20 February 2004
M M Akbar and Saurya Das 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 1383
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