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The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is usually formulated in terms of the stability of extremal black-holes or in terms of long distance Coulomb/Newton potentials. However one can think of other physical processes to compare the relative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Eduardo Gonzalo , Luis E. Ibáñez

Recently, it has been argued that application of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to spin-2 fields implies a universal upper bound on the cutoff of the effective theory for a single spin-2 field. We point out here that these arguments are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Claudia de Rham , Lavinia Heisenberg , Andrew J. Tolley

The weak gravity conjecture implies the necessary existence of particles with charge-to-mass ratio $q/m \geq 1$ so that the extremal charged black hole can completely evaporate without leaving a dangerous stable extremal remnant while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-15 Rance Solomon , Dejan Stojkovic

Weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) is a basic principle that guarantees the predictability of spacetime and should be valid in any classical theories. One critical scientific question is whether the WCCC can serve as a constraint to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-05 Jie Jiang , Aofei Sang , Ming Zhang

Within the known landscape of quantum gravity, most theories satisfy the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture (LWGC), which requires a superextremal particle at every site in the electric charge lattice $\Gamma$. However, counterexamples to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

The Weak Cosmic Censorship (WCC) conjecture can be used as a consistency criterion for any viable modification over general relativity (GR). We employ this idea to show that in contrast to the black holes in GR, it is indeed possible to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Rajes Ghosh , Akash K Mishra , Sudipta Sarkar

We consider the shift of charge-to-mass ratio for extremal black holes in the context of effective field theory, motivated by the Weak Gravity Conjecture. We constrain extremality corrections in different regimes subject to unitarity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yu-tin Huang , Jin-Yu Liu , Grant N. Remmen

The Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts that in quantum gravity there should exist overcharged states, that is states with charge larger than their mass. Extending this to large masses and charges, we are expecting similar overcharged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-16 Alex Kehagias , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Antonio Riotto , John Taskas , George Tringas

For any quasi de Sitter background, we show that a recently proposed scalar weak gravity conjecture (sWGC) follows from the swampland distance conjecture, together with the covariant entropy bound. While pointing out the limitations of our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-24 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Md. Wali Hossain

In this paper, we explore the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) within the context of photon spheres in charged black holes, framed by Perfect Fluid in Rastall Theory. We aim to validate the WGC by identifying the extremality states of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Saeed Noori Gashti , İzzet Sakallı , Behnam Pourhassan

We compute the four-derivative corrections to the geometry, extremality bound, and thermodynamic quantities of AdS-Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m black holes for general dimensions and horizon geometries. We confirm the universal relationship…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-27 Sera Cremonini , Callum R. T. Jones , James T. Liu , Brian McPeak

We point out that the physics at the extreme IR---cosmology---might provide tests of the physics of the extreme UV---the Weak Gravity Conjecture. The current discrepancies in the determination of $H_0$ may hint at a modification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-11 Nemanja Kaloper

The strong cosmic censorship conjecture states (SCCC) that one cannot extend spacetime beyond the Cauchy horizon with a square-integrable connection. This conjecture was postulated to save the deterministic nature of the most successful…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-03 Chiranjeeb Singha , Naresh Dadhich

The verification of the second law of black hole mechanics and the WCCC in the context of enthalpy as mass of the black hole and its related thermodynamic properties has not been tested through a vast number of literature in the recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-27 Md Sabir Ali , Hasan El Moumni , Jamal Khalloufi , Karima Masmar

Strong (sublattice or tower) formulations of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) imply that, if a weakly coupled gauge theory exists, a tower of charged particles drives the theory to strong coupling at an ultraviolet scale well below the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

We propose a generalized formulation of the Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture (SWGC) based on the analogy with the derivation of the Gauge Weak Gravity Conjecture (GWGC). We discuss some phenomenological implications of this Generalized SWGC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Fayez Abu-Ajamieh , Nobuchika Okada , Sudhir K. Vempati

In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive investigation into the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for Reissner-Nordstr\"om (R-N) AdS black holes that are influenced by Perfect Fluid Dark Matter (PFDM). Our study is framed within the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Ankit Anand , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar

We revisit some properties of AdS$_2$ Einstein-Maxwell gravity with the aim of reconciling apparently conflicting results in prior literature. We show that the two dimensional theory can be obtained as a dimensional reduction of the three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-10 Alejandra Castro , Wei Song

The Weak Gravity Conjecture is a nontrivial conjecture about quantum gravity that makes sharp, falsifiable predictions which can be checked in a broad range of string theory examples. However, in the presence of massless scalar fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-02 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

The tower Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts infinitely many super-extremal states along every ray in the charge lattice of a consistent quantum gravity theory. We show this far-reaching claim in five-dimensional compactifications of M-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Cesar Fierro Cota , Alessandro Mininno , Timo Weigand , Max Wiesner