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arxiv 2607.19748 v1 pith:UZMDJ6MB submitted 2026-07-22 hep-th gr-qc

Resolved Maxwell-Boundary Normal Forms and Exact Reentrant Scaling in Accelerating AdS Black Holes

Ruiliang Li This is my paper
classification hep-th gr-qc MSC 83C5783C1580A10 PACS 04.70.-s
keywords reentrant phase transitionaccelerating AdS black holesC-metricMaxwell coexistencethermodynamic volumestring tensionsingularity theoryNewton normal form
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Reentrant phase transitions—sequences in which a system switches between two phases and then back—have been seen numerically in accelerating anti-de Sitter black holes, but they seemed to vanish when the string tension got small. This paper claims the transition never actually disappears. In the standard fixed-pressure, fixed-charge, fixed-tension ensemble of the charged, slowly accelerating C-metric, the paper solves the two-phase coexistence ("Maxwell turning") problem by pure algebra: equal temperature, equal free energy, and equal thermodynamic volume force the two phases to share one horizon coordinate, and the remaining equations define a closed one-parameter curve that runs all the way down to zero tension. The apparent loss of reentrance is a scaling illusion: the pressure width of the window shrinks as the fourth power of the tension and the temperature width as the third power, while the latent heat and entropy jump diverge. The paper also extracts a general normal-form classification of such boundary coexistence curves, in which the C-metric realizes the simplest binomial class with parameter-free limiting profile bT = 2√bP − bP.

Core claim

At fixed pressure, charge, and string tension, the charged slowly accelerating AdS C-metric has a one-parameter Maxwell-turn locus: µ=χ/(1+χ)², q²=χ²(1+χ²)/(1+χ)⁴, τ=4µ, g−=g+=0, ν−=ν+, with phases as roots of a quadratic in w=z², for 0<µ<µ+≈0.202602. Both phases are admissible entropy-regular strict canonical minima; no other physical equilibrium has lower Gibbs free energy; the locus has no positive lower endpoint. The pressure and temperature widths collapse as µ⁴ and µ³, explaining apparent small-tension disappearance; blow-up gives parameter-free limiting profile bT=2√bP−bP, with volume inversion as the turning mechanism. The paper classifies Maxwell-boundary profiles via projective New

What carries the argument

Central object: the fixed-(P,Q,µ) single-string charged accelerating C-metric horizon manifold, with µ the string tension, w=z² the squared charge–acceleration coordinate, u=Ar+ the outer-horizon coordinate. The load-bearing identity: imposing equal temperature, free energy, and thermodynamic volume on two unrestricted states eliminates to u−=u+=χ; substituting this common horizon coordinate reduces coexistence to a quadratic in w whose discriminant fixes 0<µ<µ+. The Clapeyron relation dT/dP=∆V/∆S turns the zero of the volume jump into the reentrant turn, so volume inversion—not entropy-order change—is the mechanism. In the small-tension blow-up, a projective Newton polynomial R(r)=1−r^k con

Load-bearing premise

The completeness of the algebraic elimination and saturated reconstruction—the step that proves the found turning locus is the only one and that the two phases are global minima—must not lose a single physical solution; if any factor sign or resultant zero in that elimination is wrong, additional coexistence states or lower-energy equilibria could exist even though the locus itself might remain correct.

What would settle it

Perform an exact-arithmetic (not floating-point) search at one fixed tension, say µ=0.1, in the fixed-(P,Q,µ) ensemble for a second physical Maxwell turning pair whose horizon coordinates differ (u−≠u+), or whose common horizon coordinate is off the theorem's quadratic in w=z². Theorem 2.1 predicts none; finding one would disprove completeness. A companion symbolic check: verify the Appendix E resultants (R_slow(χ), C(U), E(U), P(U), Res_w(F_χ,Q_T)) have no zeros on the stated physical intervals—any zero would immediately produce an uncounted branch.

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If this is right

  • For every tension 0<µ<µ+≈0.202602 the reentrant Maxwell turn exists; there is no positive lower threshold, so the small-tension disappearance seen in unscaled phase diagrams is purely a scale effect.
  • The exact scaling (Pturn−Pt)Q²=3µ⁴/(8π)+O(µ⁵) and Q(Tt−Tturn)=µ³/(2π)+O(µ⁴) tells future numerical work exactly where to look: the window is four powers of tension wide in pressure and three in temperature.
  • At the turn the entropy ordering stays fixed but the thermodynamic volumes swap, so the Clapeyron slope reverses sign; the entropy jump, latent heat, and stationary barrier diverge as µ→0.
  • The limiting coexistence profile bT=2√bP−bP is parameter-free and stable on compact intervals; turn count and curvature are fixed by positive simple roots of the Newton polynomial, so the class is predictive.
  • The standard and topological action renormalizations differ only by a common branch-independent shift; Maxwell set, winner order, latent heat, and turning curve are identical in both schemes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • The Newton-class machinery (a,b,c;m,n,k) gives a direct way to predict small-parameter exponents for other reentrant systems: rotating accelerating black holes, Born–Infeld AdS, or Lovelock multiple-reentrant families. Measuring the pressure and temperature width exponents would test whether those systems share the C-metric's class or realize different polynomial classes.
  • The iso-stationary counterexample suggests that phase-diagram reconstruction algorithms should not rely on the stationary skeleton (folds, Morse indices, Brouwer degree) alone; value order and admissibility are independent data, with practical consequences for automated equation-of-state analyses.
  • The divergence of latent heat and barrier at zero tension indicates the µ→0 limit is not an ordinary thermodynamic limit: a decay-rate calculation would require the full off-shell fluctuation determinant, so naive comparisons with transition-rate formulae may be misleading.
  • Because the turn exists at arbitrarily small tension, any finite-resolution numerical search that reports a lower threshold is seeing a resolution artifact; robust numerical searches should rescale pressure by µ⁴ and temperature by µ³ before looking for the turn.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper studies reentrant phase transitions of charged, slowly accelerating AdS black holes in the standard single-string ensemble at fixed pressure, charge, and string tension. The central result is an exact, closed-form solution of the two-phase Maxwell-turning problem: elimination from the equal-temperature, equal-Gibbs, equal-volume equations forces the two horizon coordinates to coincide, yielding a one-parameter locus parametrized by 0<mu<mu_+≈0.202602. On this locus the paper proves existence, uniqueness, admissibility, strict canonical minimality, and global minimality of the two coexisting phases, together with exact temperature, pressure, entropy gap, latent heat, and endpoint data. A small-tension blow-up gives a parameter-free limiting coexistence profile b_T = 2 sqrt(b_P) - b_P and identifies thermodynamic-volume inversion as the turning mechanism, with pressure width scaling as mu^4 and temperature depth as mu^3. The paper also develops a general classification of resolved Maxwell-boundary profiles in terms of Newton data, and uses it to frame the black-hole result as realizing the primitive binomial class (m,n,k)=(2,1,1). Sections 4–6 and the appendices provide a broader formalism of constrained thermodynamic families, decorated wall complexes, and value-order obstructions.

Significance. If the main theorem is correct, the paper resolves a long-standing numerical puzzle: the apparent loss of reentrant behavior at small string tension is shown to be a singular boundary-layer contraction rather than a physical threshold. The result is exact and parameter-free, and it gives falsifiable scaling predictions that can be checked against numerical phase diagrams. The paper is unusually thorough in supplying explicit polynomial identities, resultant factorizations, Sturm-chain checks, and idealized endpoint data; the auxiliary material is said to include reproduction scripts. The two-chart blow-up and the Newton-profile classification are original and likely to be useful beyond this model. The exact scaling exponents and the identification of volume inversion as the turning mechanism are clean, concrete contributions.

major comments (2)
  1. [Appendix E.7 and Theorem 2.1] Theorem 2.1's uniqueness and global-minimum clauses rest on the completeness of the saturated elimination I_phys = <numEG(η*), numEa(η*)> : S_phys^∞, Eqs. (E.84)–(E.85). The text argues convincingly that the factors in S_phys have fixed sign in the physical domain, and the displayed resultants (E.86), (E.91), (E.40), (E.41), (E.45) are internally consistent with the stated interval bounds. I found no sign error or missing factor. However, these are very large symbolic computations, and any transcription error in a resultant would silently invalidate the 'every physical Maxwell turning lies on this locus' and 'no other equilibrium has lower Gibbs value' assertions. Since this is the load-bearing step, the manuscript should include a machine-checkable certificate or a precise description of how the supplementary scripts independently recompute and verify each resultant and its zero locus o
  2. [Lemma E.2 and the global-minimum reconstruction] The exclusion of a third physical equilibrium with lower Gibbs value uses Lemma E.2, which relies on the subresultant reconstruction S_1, the positivity of R_χ's discriminant, and the positivity of g_3 on the reconstructed third sheet. The endpoint signs R_χ(0)>0, R_χ(χ)<0, R_χ(1)>0 and Sturm isolation at χ=1/4 are stated, not displayed in full. I checked the structure of the argument and it is sound, but the same request applies as in the previous comment: provide the exact Sturm chain or a script that verifies the root count and the sign of g_3 on the whole interval. This is the second load-bearing point for the global-selection claim.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. 2.4, Eq. (2.53)] The constant A_+ is given to several decimals; it would be helpful to state explicitly that the square-root law follows from D_χ ∼ -D'_χc(χc-χ), which is mentioned in the proof, but the constant is not re-derived there. This is a presentation issue only.
  2. [Sec. 2.6 and Fig. 4] The boundary-layer variable r is introduced and used both as a resolved coordinate and in the statement r_turn = 1+2μ+O(μ^2). It might help to state once that r = sqrt(b_P), to avoid confusion with the horizon coordinate u and with the general Newton variable r in Sec. 3.
  3. [Appendix G, Eq. (G.7)] The notation β is used for the dimensionless inverse temperature β = 4πQ/τ_M in the proof of Corollary 2.2 and also for the lapse/resolved coordinate elsewhere. A quick glossary or a different symbol for the inverse-temperature factor would improve readability.
  4. [Sec. 5.2, Eq. (5.11)] The iso-stationary counterexample is elegant, but the figure is generated numerically from Eqs. (C.3)–(C.12) while the text says 'analytic' construction. This is fine, but it would be clearer to mark the distinction between analytic proof and numerical illustration of the explicit formula.
  5. [Appendix E.5, Eqs. (E.40)–(E.41)] The positivity arguments for C(U) and E(U) use only a few terms of the polynomials; it may be useful to note explicitly that the omitted terms are all positive on 0<U<1/6, since at first glance the displayed lower bounds skip several terms.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the turning locus, scaling exponents, and limiting profile are derived by exact elimination and blow-up from the unsquared Maxwell equations, with no fitted parameters and no load-bearing self-citation.

full rationale

The central claim (Theorem 2.1) is obtained by eliminating the unrestricted equal-temperature, equal-free-energy, equal-volume equations (Appendix E.7) and then verifying admissibility, stability, and global minimality by exact polynomial factorizations and sign bounds (Appendix E.5, Lemma E.2). The locus is not an ansatz or a fit: the parametrization µ=χ/(1+χ)^2, q^2=χ^2(1+χ^2)/(1+χ)^4 is the output of elimination, and the uniqueness claim is supported by the saturation I_phys = <numEG(η*), numEa(η*)> : S_phys^∞ together with resultant factorizations whose nonzero factors are argued with fixed signs. The small-tension scaling (P_turn−P_t)Q^2 = 3µ^4/(8π)+O(µ^5) and Q(T_t−T_turn)=µ^3/(2π)+O(µ^4) follows from inverting χ=µ+2µ^2+... on the exact locus, not from numerical matching. The boundary-layer profile bT=2√bP−bP (Theorem 2.4) is derived by substituting two state-space chart ansätze into the unsquared Maxwell equations; the coefficients (Eqs. 2.78–2.80) are solved from the leading algebraic system (Eq. F.6), whose Jacobian is 4/r, and the uniform implicit-function argument fixes uniqueness. This is matched asymptotics, not circular curve-fitting. The author's self-citations (Refs. [14] and [38]) are background and contrast material: Ref. [14] appears in a list on free-energy landscapes, and Ref. [38] is cited for the fixed-reservoir Brouwer–Morse degree, which the paper explicitly distinguishes from its new value-order and Maxwell-set analysis; neither is used to justify the turning locus or the scaling laws. The remaining risk—completeness of the large symbolic elimination in Appendix E.7—is a computational verification gap, not a circular step. The paper is self-contained against external benchmarks in the sense that its predictions are compared with exact algebraic identities and high-precision checks rather than fitted parameters.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Derivation paper, not a fitting paper: no free parameters, since the locus, scaling exponents, and blow-up coefficients are all solved from the stated equations. The parameter χ is a reparametrization (Eq. 2.40) and µ+ is a derived polynomial root (Eq. 2.62), not fitted. It leans on framework assumptions from prior literature (ensemble, first-law restriction, thermodynamic volume) and on one heavy computational-completeness premise (the saturated elimination). No invented physical entities; the 'resolved Maxwell-boundary profile' and 'decorated chamber datum' are mathematical classification objects.

axioms (6)
  • domain assumption Standard single-string fixed-(P,Q,µ) ensemble with holographic time normalization α² = Ξ(1−A²ℓ²Ξ)
    Adopted from Refs. [4,16,24] (Sec. 2.1). All results are relative to this ensemble and normalization; Prop. G.1 shows the topological action shift is branch-independent (3µT/(4P)), so phase selection is scheme-invariant within this class.
  • domain assumption First law dM = T_H dS holds as the fixed-(P,Q,µ) restriction of the full-cohomogeneity first law (Eq. 2.5)
    Justifies using G = M − TS and the envelope identities/Clapeyron relation (Eqs. 2.26–2.27). If a hidden work term survived the restriction, coexistence in (T,P) would change. This is prior-literature input, not derived here.
  • domain assumption The thermodynamic volume V of Eq. (2.4) (from Ref. [4]) is the volume entering the first law and hence the Clapeyron slope dT/dP = ∆V/∆S
    The turning condition is defined as dT/dP = 0 ⟺ ∆V = 0 (Sec. 2.4); the volume definition is taken from the framework of Refs. [4,16,24], not re-derived.
  • domain assumption The physical sector contains only slowly accelerating, entropy-regular, positive-temperature black-hole equilibria; no radiation or reference-background phase is included
    Explicitly declared in Sec. 2.1 ('No independent radiation or reference-background phase is included') and Sec. 4.1. The 'global minimum' and 'complete classification' statements are global only within this sector.
  • standard math Standard singularity-theory ingredients: parameterized Morse lemma, Whitney stratification, Berge maximum theorem, transversality hypotheses (Sec. 4.2)
    Used for the general classification (Thms 3.3, 5.5, 6.1, 6.4–6.5). Stated as explicit hypotheses with citations [28,29,48–50]; assumed valid for the C-metric application.
  • ad hoc to paper The saturated algebraic elimination (Appendix E.7) is complete: the saturation I_phys = ⟨numEG(η*), numEa(η*)⟩ : S_phys^∞ (Eqs. E.84–E.85) discards only factors with fixed nonzero sign, and the displayed resultant factorizations (E.86), (E.91), (E.40), (E.41), (E.45) have no zeros on the relevant in
    The uniqueness claim ('every such physical Maxwell turning lies on this locus') and the global-value-order proof depend on this computational premise. It is checkable by CAS but was not independently executed here; flagged as the weakest assumption.

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Reentrant phase transitions of accelerating anti-de Sitter black holes are known numerically, but their apparent loss at small string tension has lacked an analytic explanation. In the single-string ensemble at fixed pressure, charge, and tension, we solve the unrestricted two-phase Maxwell-turning problem for the charged slowly accelerating C-metric. Elimination forces the two horizon coordinates to coincide and yields a closed one-parameter locus. An exhaustive enumeration of the remaining equilibria establishes global phase selection throughout the physical black-hole sector. The locus exists for $0<\mu<0.202602$, with no positive lower threshold. As $\mu\to0$, the pressure and temperature widths of the reentrant window contract as the fourth and third powers of the tension, while the entropy gap and latent heat diverge. A two-chart blow-up gives a parameter-free limiting profile and identifies thermodynamic-volume inversion as the turning mechanism between two distinct noncritical phases. At a Maxwell boundary with fixed sheet incidence, projective Newton data of the thermodynamic jumps determine the leading coexistence profile. Their positive simple roots fix the turn count, order, and curvature signs; the C-metric realizes the primitive binomial class.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: A representative numerical slice at Q = 1, µ = 0.15, and P/Pt = 1.01. The left panel shows the two canonical folds. The right panel is the parametric critical-value curve; the solid circular marker represents two distinct physical equilibria with the same (T,G). This slice lies below the algebraic threshold µ+ given by Eq. (2.61). 2.3. The boundary corner and the snapping pressure The point X identified in… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Exact turning locus and its small-tension scales. The left panel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Exact endpoint and boundary behavior. The left panel isolates the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The small-tension Maxwell boundary layer. The left panel shows the boundary-referenced coexistence curve. Finite-tension solutions of the unsquared [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Sampled physical wall atlas at Q = 1. The left panel shows the two fold sheets, the physical Maxwell sheet, and the slow-acceleration part of the admissibility-exit wall in (T, P, µ); the extremal part at T = 0 is omitted for visibility, and the displayed slow-exit points obey T Q < 0.16. The right panel gives three fixed-tension sections. Thick solid curves are physical Maxwell values, thin solid and dash… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Representative resolved Maxwell–boundary profiles. Panels (a)–(c) use [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The three information layers retained by the decorated chamber [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The iso-stationary counterexample. The left panel shows the common [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗

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