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Recent study in [1] discovered that introducing a massive charged scalar field and requiring the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to hold can eliminate a class of Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) counterexamples in anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Si-Yuan Cui , Yong-Qiang Wang

We construct a class of counterexamples to cosmic censorship in four dimensional Einstein-Born-Infeld theory with asymptotically anti-de Sitter boundary conditions, and investigate the effect of the Born-Infeld parameter $b$ in comparison…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Tong-Tong Hu , Yan Song , Shuo Sun , Hong-Bo Li , Yong-Qiang Wang

Under spherical symmetry, we show that the weak cosmic censorship holds for the gravitational collapse of the Einstein-Maxwell-charged scalar field system. Namely, for this system, with generic initial data, the formed spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Xinliang An , Hong Kiat Tan

A surprising connection between the weak gravity conjecture and cosmic censorship has recently been proposed. In particular, it was argued that a promising class of counterexamples to cosmic censorship in four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Toby Crisford , Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos

We numerically construct the stationary solutions of $SU(2)$ Einstein-Yang-Mills theory in four dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. When the $t$ component of $SU(2)$ gauge field is taken to the only nonzero component, we construct a class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Yan Song , Si-Yuan Cui , Yong-Qiang Wang

We have recently shown that a class of counterexamples to (weak) cosmic censorship in anti-de Sitter spacetime is removed if the weak gravity conjecture holds. Surprisingly, the minimum value of the charge to mass ratio necessary to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos

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

Recently, it is found that the strong cosmic censorship (SCC) is violated in RNdS black hole by a minimal coupled neutral massless scalar field at the linear perturbation level. For the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Aofei Sang , Jie Jiang

We give two new analytical solutions to the low-energy string theory action that violate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. They are classical charged solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory in four dimensions that come in two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-24 Prieslei Goulart

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

We present a plausible counterexample to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in the four-dimensional Einstein-Scalar theory with asymptotically flat boundary conditions. Our setup stems from the analysis of the massive Klein-Gordon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Felicity C. Eperon , Bogdan Ganchev , Jorge E. Santos

We consider time-dependent solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations using anti-de Sitter (AdS) boundary conditions, and provide the first counterexample to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in four spacetime dimensions. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-18 Toby Crisford , Jorge E. Santos

We consider the possibility that the weak cosmic censorship conjecture can be violated using the Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse model with a perfect fluid star interior. Metric models with a naked singularity can be used, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Il Gyeong Choi , Dong-han Yeom

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 initiate the mathematical study of spherical collapse of self-gravitating charged scalar fields. The main result gives a complete characterization of the future boundary of spacetime, providing a starting point for studying the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Jonathan Kommemi

We perform extensive nonlinear numerical simulations of the spherical collapse of (charged) wavepackets onto a charged black hole within Einstein-Maxwell theory and in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory featuring nonminimal couplings and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Fabrizio Corelli , Taishi Ikeda , Paolo Pani

The strong cosmic censorship has recently been put into question for the charged black holes in de Sitter space. We have performed the full non-linear evolution of the massless charged scalar field minimally coupled to the Einstein-Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-04 Hongbao Zhang , Zhen Zhong

We consider Einstein-Maxwell-self-interacting scalar field theory described by a potential $V\left( \phi \right) $ in $2+1-$dimensions. The self-interaction potential is chosen to be a highly non-linear double-Liouville type. Exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-03 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

Standard Model with a classical conformal invariance holds the promise to give a better understanding of the hierarchy problem and could pave the way for beyond the standard model physics. So, we give here a mathematical treatment of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-30 Marco Frasca

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
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