
2
ular, from the relation between the Anton-Schmidt free
parameters and the BH mass, one can find spacetime so-
lutions describing Schwarzschild-de Sitter BH and naked
singularities. Thus, it appears natural to investigate the
thermodynamic consequences to check whether the inclu-
sion of a logotropic and/or the Anton-Schmidt equation
of state (EoS) may lead to reasonable results in the BH
description.
In this paper, we search for a BH solution to the
Einstein field equations, whose corresponding thermody-
namics coincides with that of logotropic models. Starting
from the Anton-Schmidt EoS, we propose a general treat-
ment to obtain an asymptotic Schwarzschild-AdS metric,
which reproduces the thermodynamic properties of the
involved fluids, i.e. the pressure and the density. In par-
ticular, we motivate this choice since in a homogeneous
and isotropic universe, those quantities appear crucial in
order to write the energy-momentum tensor, as it will be
clarified later in the text. Thus, to determine the most
suitable metric functions, we present a general method
involving any possible density term contribution. More-
over, in order to have a physical BH, we invoke the ex-
istence of an event horizon and investigate under which
circumstances the energy conditions may hold. We also
explore the possibility of violating the strong energy con-
dition, in order to find additional physical properties. We
then discuss the physical consequence of this recipe in
view of the free constants emerging from the integra-
tion procedure. With the aim of distinguishing among
different thermodynamic BHs, we consider the optical
properties of our solutions and show how to construct an
effective refractive index, following the standard proce-
dure adopted for static and spherically symmetric space-
times. In particular, we show that the net dependence
of the refractive index on the underlying spacetime can
lead to different outcomes. The refractive index increases
significantly under the choice of particular constant val-
ues, whereas the asymptotic regime is investigated in
terms of density, showing the limit to Schwarzchild-AdS.
Hence, we explore possible departures with respect to the
case without the logotropic fluid, corresponding to a pure
Schwarzschild-AdS case.
The paper is organized as follows. After this intro-
duction, in Sec. II we introduce the Anton-Schmidt EoS
and its limit to logotropic models. There we postulate
the metric ansatz for a static, spherically symmetric met-
ric that is consistent with an asymptotic AdS spacetime.
We thus analyze the thermodynamic properties of the
Anton-Schmidt BH in terms of its mass, temperature and
entropy. In Sec. III, we constrain BH solutions requiring
the presence of an event horizon and checking the validity
of the energy conditions. In particular, we discuss how
the violation of the strong energy condition may lead to a
metric solution containing a factor that can be associated
with a refractive index. Finally, in Sec. V, we summarize
our findings and draw the conclusions of our work. In
this study, we use Planck units c=~=G= 1.
II. LOGOTROPIC BLACK HOLES
Let us start by considering the Einstein field equations
with the cosmological constant in the form
Gµν + Λgµν = 8πTµν ,(1)
where Gµν ≡Rµν −1
2Rgµν is the Einstein tensor, gµν
is the metric tensor, and Tµν is the stress-energy tensor
of the source fluid. According to recent studies [48,49],
in the extended phase space one can interpret Λ as a
thermodynamic pressure, namely2
P=−Λ
8π=3
8πl2,(2)
where lis the AdS curvature constant. Our aim is to
construct an asymptotic AdS BH whose thermodynamics
matches that of the Anton-Schmidt fluid with pressure
given by
P=Aρ
ρ∗−n
ln ρ
ρ∗,(3)
where the density ρis normalized to a reference density
ρ∗, while A > 0 and n6=−1 are constants.
This class of fluid has been introduced in [33] for crys-
talline solids, where the Anton-Schmidt EoS gives the
empirical expression of crystalline solid’s pressure under
isotropic deformation. Afterwards, in the field of cosmol-
ogy, see e.g. [34], it has been argued that, in analogy with
solid state physics, the pressure naturally changes its
sign, showing how the cosmic speed-up naturally emerges
as the universe volume changes under the action of cos-
mic expansion. To account for this mechanism, one can
assume the nparameter to depend upon the Gr¨uneisen
index, γG, i.e., n=n(γG), related to the specific heat
at constant volume and to the bulk modulus. This semi-
empirical relation provides a temperature dependence of
the free parameter nthat can be tested experimentally.
We here consider fixing the index nto a constant, namely
without assuming the temperature dependence through
the Gr¨uneisen index. In fact, this allows one to inves-
tigate a given epoch of the universe dynamics that may
correspond to our time, where the temperature effects are
negligible. Hence, we shall model our BH configuration
through the pressure and the density only, which clearly
represent the main ingredients of the energy-momentum
tensor at late times. In so doing, our black hole con-
figuration shows a cosmological constant contribution to
density and pressure that matches the Anton-Schmidt
fluid given by Eq. (3).
Our strategy is to start from Eq. (3), which general-
izes the logotropic models with n= 0. In so doing, we re-
cover the logotropic thermodynamics as a limiting case of
2Alternatively, it is possible to work out the same recipe adopting
the conjugate variable of pressure, namely the volume [49].