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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

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 examine the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for the extremal charged black hole in possible generalizations of Einstein-Maxwell theory due to the higher order corrections, up to fourth-derivative terms. Our derivation is based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Baoyi Chen , Feng-Li Lin , Bo Ning , Yanbei Chen

Quantum Focusing is a powerful conjecture, which plays a key role in the current proofs of many well-known quantum gravity theorems, including various consistency conditions, and causality constraints in AdS/CFT. I conjecture a (weaker)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-25 Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

Recently, Sorce and Wald have suggested a new version of the gedanken experiments to overspin or overcharge the Kerr-Newman black holes in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. Following their setup, in this paper, we investigate the weak cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-03 Yan-Li He , Jie Jiang

The cosmological observations provide a strong evidence that there is a positive cosmological constant in our universe and thus the spacetime is asymptotical de Sitter space. The conjecture of gravity as the weakest force in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Qing-Guo Huang , Miao Li , Wei Song

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture plays a foundational role in classical gravity by asserting that spacetime singularities are generically hidden behind event horizons. In this work, we explore its robustness in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Yan-Qing Xu , Rui-Feng Zheng , Yu-Peng Zhang , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We present a new approach to the issues of spacetime singularities and cosmic censorship in general relativity. This is based on the idea that standard 4-dimensional spacetime is the conformal infinity of an ambient metric for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Ignatios Antoniadis , Spiros Cotsakis

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS) asserts the existence of an operator in the boundary conformal field theory (CFT) whose scaling dimension-to-charge ratio satisfies a certain upper bound. This bound is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Minseok Cho , Sunjin Choi , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

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

In this paper, we apply the new Gedanken experiment to investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for Reissner-Nordstr\"om AdS black holes surrounded by quintessence. Since the perturbation of matter fields doesn't affect the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Yang Qu , Jun Tao , Jiayi Wu

Constructing an explicit compactification yielding a metastable de Sitter (dS) vacuum in a UV consistent string theory is an incredibly difficult open problem. Motivated by this issue, as well as the conjecture that all non-supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 Souvik Banerjee , Ulf Danielsson , Giuseppe Dibitetto , Suvendu Giri , Marjorie Schillo

We reexamine our proposed counterexample (gr-qc/0307102) to cosmic censorship in anti de Sitter (AdS) space, and find a gap in the construction. We mention some possible ways to close the gap, but at present the question of whether cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Hertog , Gary T. Horowitz , Kengo Maeda

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture by analyzing the dynamics of spinning timelike particles dropped along the rotational axis of an extremal Kerr (anti)de Sitter black hole. This idea was first considered in a seminal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Antonia M. Frassino , Jorge V. Rocha , Andrea P. Sanna

We construct charges for four-dimensional spacetimes with a non-vanishing cosmological constant, including charges that are not conserved because of a leaky boundary and charges associated with corner terms in the symplectic current. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Robert McNees , Céline Zwikel

The Positive Binding Conjecture is a proposed formulation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture appropriate to Anti de-Sitter (AdS) space. It proposes that in a consistent gravitational theory, with a $U(1)$ gauge symmetry, there must exist a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Stefano Andriolo , Marco Michel , Eran Palti

We point out that the weakly turbulent instability of anti-de Sitter space, recently found in arXiv:1104.3702 for four dimensional spherically symmetric Einstein-massless-scalar field equations with negative cosmological constant, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 Joanna Jałmużna , Andrzej Rostworowski , Piotr Bizoń

We show that cosmic censorship takes an exceptionally complex and interesting form in the case of five-dimensional AdS-Kerr black holes, due to the unusually distant relation obtaining in that case between the black hole parameters and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Brett McInnes

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 investigate cosmic censorship in anti-de Sitter space in holographic models in which the ground state is described by a good singularity. These include supersymmetric truncations of string/M-theory, for which a positive-energy theorem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-10 Marc Aragonès Fontboté , David Mateos , Guillem Pérez Martín , Wilke van der Schee , Javier G. Subils