https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3074-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Extended phase space thermodynamics for third-order Lovelock black holes in diverse dimensions
1
School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
2
School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
* e-mail: physicshx@gmail.com
Received:
24
June
2014
Accepted:
11
September
2014
Published online:
23
September
2014
Treating the cosmological constant as thermodynamic pressure and its conjugate as thermodynamic volume, we investigate the critical behavior of the third-order Lovelock black holes in diverse dimensions. For black hole horizons with different normalized sectional curvature 
, the corresponding critical behaviors differ drastically. For 
, there is no critical point in the extended thermodynamic phase space. For 
, there is a single critical point in any dimension 
, and for 
, there is a single critical point in 
dimensions and two critical points in 8, 9, 10, 11 dimensions. We studied the corresponding phase structures in all possible cases.
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