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The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS) asserts the existence of an operator in the boundary conformal field theory (CFT) whose scaling dimension-to-charge ratio satisfies a certain upper bound. This bound is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Minseok Cho , Sunjin Choi , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

We study implications of the weak gravity conjecture in the AdS/CFT correspondence. Unlike in Minkowski spacetime, AdS spacetime has a physical length scale, so that the conjecture must be generalized with an additional parameter. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 Yu Nakayama , Yasunori Nomura

We propose a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture that applies to AdS spacetime. We find that the condition on the charge-to-mass ratio of a charged particle in AdS$_D$ spacetime is corrected compared to the one in Minkowski spacetime by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Puxin Lin , Alessandro Mininno , Gary Shiu

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) demands the existence of superextremal particles in any consistent quantum theory of gravity. The standard lore is that these particles are introduced to ensure that extremal black holes are either unstable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-09 Miguel Montero

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) asserts a powerful consistency condition on gauge theories coupled to gravity, and it is widely believed that its proof will shed light on the quantum origin of gravitational interactions. Holography, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-01 Alfredo Urbano

In this work, we investigate the extension of our recent proposal for the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in AdS space to more general effective field theories. We first extend the conjecture to set-ups where moduli are present and we demand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Puxin Lin , Alessandro Mininno , Gary Shiu

In this study, we investigate the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in the context of quantum-corrected AdS-Reissner-Nordstrom (AdS-RN) black holes within Kiselev spacetime. Our focus is on photon spheres, which serve as markers for stable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Jafar Sadeghi

In this paper, we focus on the possible correlation between conjectures KSS bound and weak gravity conjecture (WGC). The hydrodynamic values KSS bound and weak gravity conjecture constraint the low-energy effective field theory. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 E. Naghd Mezerji , J. Sadeghi

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is a proposed constraint on theories with gauge fields and gravity, requiring the existence of light charged particles and/or imposing an upper bound on the field theory cutoff $\Lambda$. If taken as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Prashant Saraswat

In this paper, we first introduce the Riesner-Nordstrom AdS (RN-AdS) black hole in presence of quintessence and cloud of strings. And then we use the Restrict Phase Space $(RPS)$ formalism in the corresponding black holes at the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Jafar Sadeghi , Mehdi Shokri

We explore possible extensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to scalar field theories. To avoid charged black hole remnants, the WGC requires the existence of a particle with a mass $m < g q M_P$, with charge $q$ and U(1) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-22 Emilian Dudas , Tony Gherghetta , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

We investigate the behavior of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) under toroidal compactification and RG flows, finding evidence that WGC bounds for single photons become weaker in the infrared. By contrast, we find that a photon satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

A series of corrections to general relativity have recently been applied to find the relationship between entropy and extremality-bound black holes. This relationship has been investigated for many black holes, such as charged AdS,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-03 Jafar Sadeghi , Saeed Noori Gashti , Izzet Sakalli , Behnam Pourhassan

We study weakly coupled $U(1)$ theories in $AdS_3$, their associated charged BTZ solutions, and their charged spectra. We find that modular invariance of the holographic dual two-dimensional CFT and compactness of the gauge group together…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Miguel Montero , Gary Shiu , Pablo Soler

The authors of arXiv:1610.01533 have recently proposed a stronger version of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC), based on which they concluded that all those non-supersymmetric AdS vacua that can be embedded within a constistent theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Ulf Danielsson , Giuseppe Dibitetto

In this study, we investigate the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) for a quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordstr\"om Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole embedded in Kiselev spacetime. By making small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Ankit Anand , Anshul Mishra , Phongpichit Channuie

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) posits that gravity must be the weakest force in any consistent theory of quantum gravity. Originally formulated to constrain the landscape of effective field theories arising from string theory, the WGC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Gayatri Ghosh

We study (near-)circular orbits of charged particles in the background of charged black holes in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes of arbitrary dimensionality. We calculate the energy and angular momentum of such particles in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-13 Upamanyu Moitra

A surprising connection between the weak gravity conjecture and cosmic censorship has recently been proposed. In particular, it was argued that a promising class of counterexamples to cosmic censorship in four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Toby Crisford , Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos

The potential conflict between the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) poses a significant challenge in general relativity. The WCCC serves as a fundamental assumption ensuring the coherence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan , İzzet Sakallı
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