The Hawking Temperature of Anti-de Sitter Black Holes: Topology and Phase Transitions

In this work we determine how the description of a four-dimensional Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter black hole affects the topological calculation of its Hawking temperature. It is shown that a two-dimensional approach is required due to the presence of the Hawking-Page phase transition which destabilises the spacetime's topology. We prove that... Show more