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We compute the four-derivative corrections to the geometry, extremality bound, and thermodynamic quantities of AdS-Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m black holes for general dimensions and horizon geometries. We confirm the universal relationship…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-27 Sera Cremonini , Callum R. T. Jones , James T. Liu , Brian McPeak

We propose a generalisation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in de Sitter space by studying charged black-holes and comparing the gravitational and an abelian gauge forces. Using the same condition as in flat space, namely the absence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Ignatios Antoniadis , Karim Benakli

We examine the minimal constraints imposed by the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) on the particle spectrum of a quantum gravity theory. Towers of super-extremal states have previously been argued to be required for consistency of the WGC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-20 Cesar Fierro Cota , Alessandro Mininno , Timo Weigand , Max Wiesner

We propose a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture that applies to AdS spacetime. We find that the condition on the charge-to-mass ratio of a charged particle in AdS$_D$ spacetime is corrected compared to the one in Minkowski spacetime by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Puxin Lin , Alessandro Mininno , Gary Shiu

The weak gravity conjecture and the shear viscosity to entropy density bound place constraints on low energy effective field theories that may help to distinguish which theories can be UV completed. Recently, there have been suggestions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-14 Aaron J. Amsel , Dan Gorbonos

We study charged scalar perturbations of charged extremal black holes in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. Our numerical results indicate that these black holes all suffer from superradiant instability by the unstable quasi-bound states,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 Ze-Hua Wu , H. Lu

The Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts that in quantum gravity there should exist overcharged states, that is states with charge larger than their mass. Extending this to large masses and charges, we are expecting similar overcharged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-16 Alex Kehagias , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Antonio Riotto , John Taskas , George Tringas

The Weak Cosmic Censorship (WCC) conjecture can be used as a consistency criterion for any viable modification over general relativity (GR). We employ this idea to show that in contrast to the black holes in GR, it is indeed possible to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Rajes Ghosh , Akash K Mishra , Sudipta Sarkar

This dissertation represents work on three different subjects relating to quantum gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. First, we review a holographic computation of the one-loop corrections to the Weyl anomaly on Ricci flat backgrounds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 Brian McPeak

We conjecture a general upper bound on the strength of gravity relative to gauge forces in quantum gravity. This implies, in particular, that in a four-dimensional theory with gravity and a U(1) gauge field with gauge coupling g, there is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Lubos Motl , Alberto Nicolis , Cumrun Vafa

In theories with discrete Abelian gauge groups, requiring that black holes be able to lose their charge as they evaporate leads to an upper bound on the product of a charged particle's mass and the cutoff scale above which the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nathaniel Craig , Isabel Garcia Garcia , Seth Koren

Strong (sublattice or tower) formulations of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) imply that, if a weakly coupled gauge theory exists, a tower of charged particles drives the theory to strong coupling at an ultraviolet scale well below the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

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

Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with non-trivial dilaton potential is known to admit asymptotically flat and (Anti-)de Sitter charged black hole solutions. We investigate the conditions for the presence of horizons as function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-26 Karim Benakli , Carlo Branchina , Gaëtan Lafforgue-Marmet

We investigate the geometry of four dimensional black hole solutions in the presence of stringy higher curvature corrections to the low energy effective action. For certain supersymmetric two charge black holes these corrections drastically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Veronika Hubeny , Alexander Maloney , Mukund Rangamani

We study duality-invariant higher-derivative corrections to the charged black hole geometry in two-dimensional heterotic string theory. We illustrate how the conventional perturbative approach to determine the corrected geometry breaks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Upamanyu Moitra

The strong cosmic censorship conjecture, whose validation asserts the deterministic nature of general relativity, has been studied for charged BTZ black holes in three dimensional general relativity, as well as for Nth order pure Lovelock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Chiranjeeb Singha , Sumanta Chakraborty , Naresh Dadhich

In this study, we investigate the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in the context of quantum-corrected AdS-Reissner-Nordstrom (AdS-RN) black holes within Kiselev spacetime. Our focus is on photon spheres, which serve as markers for stable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Jafar Sadeghi

In this paper, we investigate the quantum gravitational corrections to the thermodynamical quantities of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes within the framework of effective field theory. The effective action originates from integrating out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Yong Xiao , Qiang Wang , Aonan Zhang

In models with large extra dimensions, where the fundamental gravity scale can be in the electroweak range, gravitational effects in particle physics may be noticeable even at relatively low energies. In this paper, we perform simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bambi , A. D. Dolgov , K. Freese