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We develop methods for resummation of instanton lattice series. Using these tools, we investigate the consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for large-field axion inflation. We find that the Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture implies a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Ben Heidenreich , Cody Long , Liam McAllister , Tom Rudelius , John Stout

We study the effect of higher-derivative corrections on asymptotically flat, four-dimensional, non-rotating dyonic black holes in low-energy models of gravity coupled to $N$ $U(1)$ gauge fields. For large extremal black holes, the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Callum R. T. Jones , Brian McPeak

The minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) predicts the emergence of towers of superextremal states in both weak and strong coupling limits. In this work, we study M-theory compactified on a special class of Calabi-Yau threefolds to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Mohammed Charkaoui , Rajae Sammani , El Hassan Saidi , Rachid Ahl Laamara

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

Tiny values for gauge couplings of dark photons allow to suppress their kinetic mixing with ordinary photons. We point out that the Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts consequently low ultraviolet cut-offs where new degrees of freedom might…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Karim Benakli , Carlo Branchina , Gaëtan Lafforgue-Marmet

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

We propose a new version of the scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) which would apply to any scalar field coupled to quantum gravity. For a single scalar it is given by the differential constraint $V''\leq…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Eduardo Gonzalo , Luis E. Ibáñez

In this note, we discuss the implications of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) for general models of large-field inflation with a large number of axions $N$. We first show that, from the bottom-up perspective, such models admit a variety of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Daniel Junghans

In a gravitational theory with a massless photon the maximum charge-to-mass ratio of black holes approaches the prediction of the Einstein-Maxwell theory as black hole mass increases: $Q_{\rm ext}/M =1+ \alpha/M^2$ for some constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-09 Mehrdad Mirbabayi

This dissertation represents work on three different subjects relating to quantum gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. First, we review a holographic computation of the one-loop corrections to the Weyl anomaly on Ricci flat backgrounds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 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

We present a complete proof of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in any perturbative bosonic string theory in spacetime dimension $D\ge6$. Our proof works by relating the black hole extremality bound to long range forces, which are more easily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 Ben Heidenreich , Matteo Lotito

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

This study investigates the nonlinear charged Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole solution within the framework of massive gravity, motivated by recent advancements linking the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to phenomena such as Weak Cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan , Jafar Sadeghi

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 note we give a summary of [arXiv:2401.14449] in which we proposed a proof of the weak gravity conjecture in perturbative string theory. While the WGC is well established, checked in many examples, and many of the ingredients we use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Matteo Lotito

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

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

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

A mild version of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) states that extremal black holes have charge-to-mass ratio larger or equal than one when higher-curvature interactions are taken into account. Since these corrections become more relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Pablo A. Cano , Tomas Ortin , Pedro F. Ramirez