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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 study a simple gravity model dual to a (2+1)-dimensional system with a boundary at finite charge density and temperature. In our naive AdS/BCFT extension of a well known AdS/CFT system a non-zero charge density must be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Dmitry Melnikov , Emanuele Orazi , Pasquale Sodano

The AdS/CFT correspondence conjectures a duality between quantum gravity theories in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime and conformal field theories (CFTs) on the boundary. One intriguing aspect of this correspondence is that it offers a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Zuo Wang , Liang He

The goal of these notes is to introduce, in a very elementary way, the idea of the anti de-Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to condensed matter physicists. This theory relates a gravity theory in a (d+1)- dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-01 A S T Pires

Recently, it has been argued that application of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to spin-2 fields implies a universal upper bound on the cutoff of the effective theory for a single spin-2 field. We point out here that these arguments are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Claudia de Rham , Lavinia Heisenberg , Andrew J. Tolley

We study the energy spectrum of the composite magnetic monopole (CMM) in the model originally constructed in arXiv:1608.06951 to examine how the applicability of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) propagates to lower energy scales in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-12 Moreshwar Pathak , Kazuyuki Furuuchi

In this thesis we study several problems in the context of AdS/CFT. The first is that of gravitational phase transitions between AdS and dS geometries in the Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity. Such transitions are mediated by thermalons and do…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-08 J. Anibal Sierra-Garcia

The AdS/CFT correspondence provides a new perspective on recurrent questions in General Relativity such as the allowed boundary conditions at infinity and the definition of gravitational conserved charges. Here we review the main insights…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Kostas Skenderis , Marika Taylor , Balt C. van Rees

This paper examines the holographic computation of bulk and shear viscosity ratios in strongly coupled thermal plasmas using the AdS/BCFT correspondence within Horndeski gravity. We demonstrate that this framework leads to non-zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-19 Fabiano F. Santos

We describe gauge theories which allow to retrieve a large class of gravitational theories, including, MacDowell-Mansouri gravity and its topological extension to Loop Quantum Gravity via the Pontrjagin characteristic class involving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 J. Thibaut , S. Lazzarini

We propose a generalized formulation of the Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture (SWGC) based on the analogy with the derivation of the Gauge Weak Gravity Conjecture (GWGC). We discuss some phenomenological implications of this Generalized SWGC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Fayez Abu-Ajamieh , Nobuchika Okada , Sudhir K. Vempati

Scalar weak gravity conjectures (SWGCs) attempt to pinpoint the ranges of couplings consistent with a fundamental theory of all interactions. We identify a generic dynamical consequence of these conjectures for cosmology and show that SWGCs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-30 Alexander Kusenko , Volodymyr Takhistov , Masaki Yamada , Masahito Yamazaki

Inspired by the general relation between the boundary global symmetry and the bulk gauge symmetry in AdS/CFT, we reformulate the $d+1$ dimensional AdS gravity theory as a $SO(2,d)$ gauge theory. In this formalism, the pull back of the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-28 Zhao-Long Wang , Ya-Xun Song

In this paper we use the AdS/CFT correspondence to refine and then establish a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. We first show that any global symmetry, discrete or continuous, in a bulk quantum gravity theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Daniel Harlow , Hirosi Ooguri

In this brief review, I summarize the new development on the correspondence between noncommuative (NC) field theory and gravity, shortly referred to as the NCFT/Gravity correspondence. I elucidate why a gauge theory in NC spacetime should…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Hyun Seok Yang

Basic aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence are studied in the framework of 3-dimensional gravity with torsion. After choosing a consistent holographic ansatz, we formulate an improved approach to the Noether--Ward identities for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Milutin Blagojević , Branislav Cvetković , Olivera Miskovic , Rodrigo Olea

We refine the definition of universal ratio c/\tilde{c} obtained via AdS/CFT correspondence as shown in arXiv:0801.2785 [hep-th], denoted as \gamma_c, and apply it to non-CFTs whose dual gravitational theory have metric of asymptotic AdS.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-04-07 Wen-Yu Wen

The AdS/CFT correspondence is an explicit realization of the holographic principle relating a theory of gravity in a volume of space to a lower dimensional quantum field theory on its boundary. By exploiting elements of quantum error…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-03 Vic Vander Linden

We examine various aspects of the conjectured duality between warped AdS$_5$ geometries with boundary branes and strongly coupled (broken) conformal field theories coupled to dynamical gravity. We also examine compactifications with 5-d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Massimo Porrati , Lisa Randall

In arXiv:1508.01343 [hep-th], one of the authors proposed that in AdS/CFT the gravity dual of the boundary $c$-theorem is the second law of thermodynamics satisfied by causal horizons in AdS and this was verified for Einstein gravity in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-30 Shamik Banerjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya