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We study the general black hole solutions of dimensionally reduced five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The reduced theory contains gravity, electromagnetism and a scalar field, with nonlinear corrections to the action and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Z. Belkhadria , S. Mignemi , F. Paderi

The tunneling approach for entropy generation in quantum gravity is applied to black holes. The area entropy is recovered and shown to count only a tiny fraction of the black hole degeneracy. The latter stems from the extension of the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 A. Casher , F. Englert

We define the analytic continuation of the number of black hole microstates in Loop Quantum Gravity to complex values of the Barbero-Immirzi parameter $\gamma$. This construction deeply relies on the link between black holes and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-24 Jibril Ben Achour , Amaury Mouchet , Karim Noui

We view and provide further evidence for a number of Swampland criteria, including the Weak Gravity Conjecture, Distance Conjecture and bounds on the finiteness of the quantum gravity vacua from the prism of the finiteness of black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Yuta Hamada , Miguel Montero , Cumrun Vafa , Irene Valenzuela

Extremal BPS-saturated black holes in $N=2$, $d=4$ supergravity can carry electric and magnetic charges $(q^\Lambda_{(m)},q_\Lambda^{(e)})$. It is shown that in smooth cases the moduli fields at the horizon take a fixed "rational" value…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Andrew Strominger

In General Relativity, the tidal Love numbers of black holes vanish, implying they are resistant to tidal deformation. This "rigidity" is easily broken in the presence of higher-derivative corrections. Focusing on extremal charged black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Toshifumi Noumi , Sam S. C. Wong

Taking into account the Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian of one-loop nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics (QED) contributions, we formulate the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg theory and study the solutions of nonrotating black holes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-08 Remo Ruffini , Yuan-Bin Wu , She-Sheng Xue

We compute the logarithmic correction to black hole entropy about exponentially suppressed saddle points of the Quantum Entropy Function corresponding to Z(N) orbifolds of the near horizon geometry of the extremal black hole under study. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Rajesh Kumar Gupta , Shailesh Lal , Somyadip Thakur

In the context of effective field theory, we consider quantum gravity with minimally coupled massless particles. Fixing the background geometry to be of the Kerr-Schild type, we fully determine the one-loop effective action of the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-01 Basem Kamal El-Menoufi

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 effective action of $N=2$, $d=4$ supergravity is shown to acquire no quantum corrections in background metrics admitting super-covariantly constant spinors. In particular, these metrics include the Robinson-Bertotti metric (product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Renata Kallosh

For the worldline theory of an extremal black hole, extremality amounts to vanishing ground state energy. In light of recent gravity results one would expect much like the ground state degeneracy this fine tuned condition too will not be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Pranav Kumar , Swapnamay Mondal

We extend the investigation of the recently proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence to large classes of rotating black hole solutions in gauged and ungauged supergravities. The correspondence, proposed originally for four-dimensional Kerr black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-02 David D. K. Chow , M. Cvetic , H. Lu , C. N. Pope

We have learnt that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of supersymmetric black holes in five-dimensional minimal supergravity can be reproduced from microstate counting via the AdS/CFT and Kerr/CFT correspondence. In this note, we demostrate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-31 Wen-Yu Wen

We study the entropy of non-supersymmetric extremal black holes which exhibit attractor mechanism by making use of the entropy function. This method, being simple, can be used to calculate corrections to the entropy due to higher order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Mohsen Alishahiha , Hajar Ebrahim

Earlier calculations of black hole entropy in loop quantum gravity led to a dominant term proportional to the area, but there was a correction involving the logarithm of the area, the Chern-Simons level being assumed to be large. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-26 A. Ghosh , P. Mitra

We consider Einstein-Maxwell gravity in diverse dimensions and construct the small charge perturbation to the extremal rotating black holes with all equal angular momenta in odd $D=2n+1$ dimensions. Exact solutions exist at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Qi-Yuan Mao , H. Lu

We calculate the logarithmic correction to the entropy of asymptotically flat and AdS black holes (rotating, non-rotating, charged, and uncharged) embedded in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton (EMD) theories with $U(1)$-charged. The leading quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-08 Sudip Karan , Gurmeet Singh Punia

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

We consider the Matrix theory proposal describing eleven-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes. We argue that the Newtonian potential between two black holes receives a genuine long range quantum gravity correction, which is finite and can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Katrin Becker , Melanie Becker