Black hole entropy for two higher derivative theories of gravity (Q657497)

Summary: The dark energy issue is attracting the attention of an increasing number of physicists all over the world. Among the possible alternatives to explain what as been named the ``Mystery of the Millennium'' are the so-called Modified Theories of Gravity. A crucial test for such models is represented by the existence and (if this is the case) the properties of their black hole solutions. Nowadays, to our knowledge, only two non-trivial, static, spherically symmetric, solutions with vanishing cosmological constant are known by \textit{J. D. Barrow} and \textit{T. Clifton} [``The power of general relativity''. Phys. Rev. 2005, D72, Article ID 103005 (2005)] and \textit{S. Deser, Ö. Sarioglu} and \textit{B. Tekin} [Gen. Relativ. Gravitation 40, No. 1, 1--7 (2008; Zbl 1181.83159)]. The aim of the paper is to discuss some features of such solutions, with emphasis on their thermodynamic properties such as entropy and temperature.