Research Article

Maxwell’s Equal Area Law and the Hawking-Page Phase Transition

Figure 1

Plot of the Hawking temperature showing Hawking-Page phases. For , there are no BHs but a pure radiation phase. For , there exists a pair of BHs with radii , given in (12). The smaller BH is (thermodynamically) unstable, while the larger is either locally stable, , or globally stable for .
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