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We analyse the Weak Gravity Conjecture for chiral four-dimensional F-theory compactifications with N=1 supersymmetry. Extending our previous work on nearly tensionless heterotic strings in six dimensions, we show that under certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Seung-Joo Lee , Wolfgang Lerche , Timo Weigand

The weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is an ultraviolet consistency condition asserting that an Abelian force requires a state of charge $q$ and mass $m$ with $q>m/m_{\rm Pl}$. We generalize the WGC to product gauge groups and study its tension…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-31 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

The much-discussed \emph{Weak Gravity Conjecture} is interesting and important in both the asymptotically flat and the asymptotically AdS contexts. In the latter case, it is natural to ask what conditions it (and the closely related Cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Brett McInnes

We prove a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for 6d F-theory or heterotic string compactifications with 8 supercharges. This sharpens our previous analysis by including massless scalar fields. The latter are known to modify the Weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Seung-Joo Lee , Wolfgang Lerche , Timo Weigand

One of the important problems with the existence of weak gravity conjecture ($WGC$) is the violation of the cosmic censorship. Such a cosmic phenomena is important and consistent in general relativity. It means that for a charged black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Jafar Sadeghi , Mehdi Shokri

The new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald are designed to test the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) by overspinning or overcharging the Kerr-Newman black hole in Einstein-Maxwell gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-27 Zhen Li , Yunjiao Gao , Xiao-Kan Guo

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

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 Charge Convexity Conjecture (CCC) states that in a unitary conformal field theory in $d\geq 3$ dimensions with a global symmetry, the minimal dimension of operators in certain representations of the symmetry, as a function of the charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Ofer Aharony , Yacov-Nir Breitstein

We consider the gravitational correction to the running of gauge coupling. Weak gravity conjecture implies that the gauge theories break down when the gravitational correction becomes greater than the contribution from gauge theories. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Qing-Guo Huang

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

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

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 argue that in theories of quantum gravity with discrete gauge symmetries, e.g. $\textbf{Z}_k$, the gauge couplings of U$(1)$ gauge symmetries become weak in the limit of large $k$, as $g\to k^{-\alpha}$ with $\alpha$ a positive order 1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Ginevra Buratti , Jose Calderon , Alessandro Mininno , Angel M. Uranga

The Weak Gravity Conjecture postulates the existence of superextremal charged particles, i.e. those with mass smaller than or equal to their charge in Planck units. We present further evidence for our recent observation that in known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

We compute the path integral of three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant on spaces which are topologically a torus times an interval. These are Euclidean wormholes, which smoothly interpolate between two asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-28 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

Various massive gravity theories in three dimensions are conjecturally dual to logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs). We summarise the status of these conjectures. LCFTs are characterised by the values of the central charges and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Daniel Grumiller , Niklas Johansson , Thomas Zojer

Motivated by the desire to improve our understanding of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, we compute the one-loop correction of charged particles to the geometry and entropy of extremal black holes in 4d. We find that fermion loops provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-30 William Cottrell , Gary Shiu , Pablo Soler

This paper addresses a potential validation of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) with the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC), as a significant challenge in quantum gravity. We explore the viability of the WGC and WCCC in the context…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan

The mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) requires higher derivative corrections to extremal charged black holes to increase their charge-to-mass ratio. This allows decay via emission of a smaller extremal black hole. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Lars Aalsma , Gary Shiu