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We study black-hole thermodynamics in theories that contain dimensionful constants such as the cosmological constant or coupling constants in Wald’s formalism. The most natural way to deal with these constants is to promote them to scalar fields introducing a (d − 1)-form Lagrange multiplier that forces them to be constant on-shell. These (d − 1)-form potentials provide a dual description of them and, in the context of superstring/supergravity theories, a higher-dimensional origin/explanation. In the context of gauged supergravity theories, all these constants can be collected in the embedding tensor. We show in an explicit 4-dimensional example that the embedding tensor can also be understood as a thermodynamical variable that occurs in the Smarr formula in a duality-invariant fashion. This establishes an interesting link between black-hole thermodynamics, gaugings and compactifications in the context of superstring/supergravity theories.
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Meessen, P., Mitsios, D. & Ortín, T. Black hole chemistry, the cosmological constant and the embedding tensor. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 155 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2022)155
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