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Generalizing weak gravity conjecture

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-09-15 v1

Abstract

The weak gravity conjecture implies the necessary existence of particles with charge-to-mass ratio q/m1q/m \geq 1 so that the extremal charged black hole can completely evaporate without leaving a dangerous stable extremal remnant while simultaneously not revealing a naked singularity along the way. In other words, this inequality ensures that the charge is emitted faster than the mass of a black hole, which is in turn coincidentally consistent with the fact that gravitational interaction for such parties is weaker than electromagnetic. To extend this argument to non-extremal black holes, we solve the problem of a charged shell of mass and charge (m,qm,q) from a black hole with (M,QM,Q). We find a more general condition q/mQ/Mq/m \geq Q/M, which obviously reduces to the weak gravity conjecture in the extremal limit, however it relaxes the condition for complete evaporation of non-extremal black holes. This condition also allows us to directly relate the particle content of the theory with the spectrum of black hole states.

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@article{arxiv.2008.03749,
  title  = {Generalizing weak gravity conjecture},
  author = {Rance Solomon and Dejan Stojkovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.03749},
  year   = {2020}
}