AdS and Lifshitz black hole solutions in conformal gravity sourced with a scalar field

TL;DR

This paper derives exact AdS and Lifshitz black hole solutions in four-dimensional conformal gravity with a scalar field, analyzes their thermodynamics, and computes quasinormal modes for scalar perturbations.

Contribution

It presents new exact solutions for AdS and Lifshitz black holes in conformal gravity coupled with a scalar field, including thermodynamic and quasinormal mode analyses.

Findings

AdS and Lifshitz black holes with z=0 have zero mass and entropy but non-zero temperature.

Lifshitz black holes with z=4 have non-zero conserved charges and satisfy the first law of thermodynamics.

Quasinormal modes exhibit continuous spectra with Dirichlet boundary conditions and discrete spectra with Neumann conditions.

Abstract

In this paper we obtain exact asymptotically anti-de Sitter black hole solutions and asymptotically Lifshitz black hole solutions with dynamical exponents $z=0$ and $z=4$ of four-dimensional conformal gravity coupled with a self-interacting conformally invariant scalar field. Then, we compute their thermodynamical quantities, such as the mass, the Wald entropy and the Hawking temperature. The mass expression is obtained by using the generalized off-shell Noether potential formulation. It is found that the anti-de Sitter black holes as well as the Lifshitz black holes with $z=0$ have zero mass and zero entropy, although they have non-zero temperature. A similar behavior has been observed in previous works, where the integration constant is not associated with a conserved charge, and it can be interpreted as a kind of gravitational hair. On the other hand, the Lifshitz black holes with dynamical exponent $z=4$ have non-zero conserved charges, and the first law of black hole thermodynamics holds. Also, we analyze the horizon thermodynamics for the Lifshitz black holes with $z=4$, and we show that the first law of black hole thermodynamics arises from the field equations evaluated on the horizon. Furthermore, we study the propagation of a conformally coupled scalar field on these backgrounds and we find the quasinormal modes analytically in several cases. We find that for anti-de Sitter black holes and Lifshitz black holes with $z=4$, there is a continuous spectrum of frequencies for Dirichlet boundary condition; however, we show that discrete sets of well defined quasinormal frequencies can be obtained by considering Neumann boundary conditions.