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Cosmic Censorship and Weak Gravity Conjecture in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-05-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We explore the cosmic censorship in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory following Wald's thought experiment to destroy a black hole by throwing in a test particle. We discover that at probe limit the extremal charged dilaton black hole could be destroyed by a test particle with specific energy. Nevertheless the censorship is well protected if backreaction or self-force is included. At the end, we discuss an interesting connection between Hoop Conjecture and Weak Gravity Conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07916,
  title  = {Cosmic Censorship and Weak Gravity Conjecture in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory},
  author = {Ten-Yeh Yu and Wen-Yu Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07916},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures, version submitted to PLB, Phys. Lett. B (2018)