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We investigate extremal electrically charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a cosmological constant inspired by string theory. These solutions are not static, and a timelike singularity eventually appears which is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-06 James H. Horne , Gary T. Horowitz

In this paper, based on the new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald, we examine the weak cosmic censorship in the perturbation process of accreting matter fields for the charged dilaton-Lifshitz black holes. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 Jie Jiang , Ming Zhang

Recent work has highlighted the deep connection between quantum information and spacetime geometry. Bousso and Shahbazi-Moghaddam (Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231301 (2022)) proved that ``hyperentropic'' regions -- where entropy exceeds the area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-24 Naman Kumar

Penrose's weak cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that spacetime singularities produced by gravitational collapse are generically hidden behind event horizons, thus preventing them from causally influencing distant observers and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Giovanni Caridi , Fabrizio Corelli , Paolo Pani

Positivity bounds coming from consistency of UV scattering amplitudes are in general insufficient to prove the weak gravity conjecture for theories beyond Einstein-Maxwell. Additional ingredients about the UV may be necessary to exclude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-20 Gregory J. Loges , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu

Recently, it was argued in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf126}, 031102 (2021)] that the WCCC can serve as a constraint to high-order effective field theories. However, we find there exists a key error in their approximate black hole solution. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Jie Jiang , Aofei Sang , Ming Zhang

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

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter black holes under the scattering of a scalar field. We test the conjecture in terms of whether the black hole can exceed the extremal condition with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-18 Bogeun Gwak

In this paper, we investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for the Kerr-Sen black holes by considering the new version of the gedanken experiments proposed recently by Sorce and Wald. After deriving the first two order perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-29 Jie Jiang , Xiaoyi Liu , Ming Zhang

Presently, the inclusion of the vacuum energy in the energy momentum tensor, and the inclusion of the extra dimensions in the spacetime, can not be rule out of the research in gravitation. In this work we study the influence of the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Campos

It has recently been shown that the strong cosmic censorship conjecture can be violated by the massless neutral scalar field in the nearly extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black hole. However, the formation of such a black hole by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Yuyu Mo , Yu Tian , Bin Wang , Hongbao Zhang , Zhen Zhong

We present a plausible counterexample to cosmic censorship in four dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory with asymptotically anti-de Sitter boundary conditions. Smooth initial data evolves to a region of arbitrarily large curvature that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos , Benson Way

There is a claim that a static charged black hole (Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole) can be overcharged by absorbing a charged test particle. If it is true, it might give a counter example to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-20 Soichiro Isoyama , Norichika Sago , Takahiro Tanaka

In this paper, we wish to investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for the non black hole object, Buchdahl star and test its validity. It turns out that the extremal limit for the star is over-extremal for black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Sanjar Shaymatov , Naresh Dadhich

The weak gravity conjecture has been proposed as a criterion to distinguish the landscape from the swampland in string theory. As an application in cosmology of this conjecture, we use it to impose theoretical constraint on parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xing Wu , Zong-Hong Zhu

The Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture provides one of the most effective quantum gravity tools for constraining particle physics and cosmology, but it has long been thought of as a slightly fuzzy statement: given an axion with decay constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 Muldrow Etheredge , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius , Christopher Tudball

For almost half of the one hundred year history of Einstein's theory of general relativity, Strong Cosmic Censorship has been one of its most intriguing conjectures. The SCC conjecture addresses the issue of the nature of the singularities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-26 James Isenberg

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

If a black hole can accrete a body whose spin or charge would send the black hole parameters over the extremal limit, then a naked singularity would presumably form, in violation of the cosmic censorship conjecture. We review some previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Ted Jacobson , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Horava-Lifshitz theory of gravity with detailed balance is plagued by the presence of a negative bare (or geometrical) cosmological constant which makes its cosmology clash with observations. We argue that adding the effects of the large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Corrado Appignani , Roberto Casadio , S. Shankaranarayanan