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The Asymptotic WGC has been proposed as a special case of the tower WGC that probes infinite distances in the moduli space corresponding to weakly coupled gauge regimes. The conjecture has been studied in M-theory on Calabi-Yau threefold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 M. Charkaoui , R. Sammani , E. H Saidi , R. Ahl Laamara

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) was proposed to constrain Effective Field Theories (EFTs) with Abelian gauge symmetry coupled to gravity. In this article, I study the WGC from low energy observers' perspective, and revisit the issue of to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Kazuyuki Furuuchi

We study some aspects of a class of non-AdS holography where the 3d bulk gravity is given by Generalized Minimal Massive Gravity (GMMG). We consider the spacelike warped $AdS_3$ ($WAdS_3$) black hole solution of this model where the 2d dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 M. R. Setare , M. Koohgard

We find large N gauge theories containing a large number of operators within a band of low conformal dimensions. One of such examples is the four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory with one adjoint and a pair of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-18 Prarit Agarwal , Jaewon Song

The mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture states that quantum or higher-derivative corrections should decrease the mass of large extremal charged black holes at fixed charge. This allows extremal black holes to decay, unless protected by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Lars Aalsma , Alex Cole , Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

We study ultraviolet cutoffs associated with the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture (sLWGC). There is a magnetic WGC cutoff at the energy scale $e G_N^{-1/2}$ with an associated sLWGC tower of charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

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

Pure theories of AdS$_3$ quantum gravity are conjectured to be dual to CFTs with sparse spectra of light primary operators. The sparsest possible spectrum consistent with modular invariance includes only black hole states above the vacuum.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Nathan Benjamin , Ethan Dyer , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Alexander Maloney , Eric Perlmutter

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

We correlate the weak gravity conjecture (WGC), the KSS conjecture with chemical potential at extremality and the central charges by going through a particular example in five dimensional AdS spacetime with two unknown coefficients $c_1,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-16 Shesansu Sekhar Pal

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

Modular invariance strongly constrains the spectrum of states of two dimensional conformal field theories. By summing over the images of the modular group, we construct candidate CFT partition functions that are modular invariant and have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Christoph A. Keller , Alexander Maloney

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

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

The Weak Gravity Conjecture imposes stringent constraints on effective field theories to allow for an ultraviolet completion within quantum gravity. While substantial evidence supports the conjecture across broad classes of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Stefano Lanza

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) bounds the mass of a particle by its charge. It is expected that this bound can not be below the ultraviolet cut-off scale of the effective theory. Recently, an extension of the WGC was proposed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Dieter Lust , Eran Palti

We propose a generalisation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in the presence of scalar fields. The proposal is guided by properties of extremal black holes in ${\cal N}=2$ supergravity, but can be understood more generally in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Eran Palti

In this paper, we explore the intriguing interplay between fundamental theoretical physics concepts within the context of charged black holes. Specifically, we focus on the consistency of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) and weak cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Jafar Sadeghi , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar

We search for a possible relation between weak gravity conjecture and conformal field theory in the hyperscaling violating and Kerr-Newman-AdS black holes. We deal with the critical points of the black hole systems through the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Jafar Sadeghi , Mehdi Shokri , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti