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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

In this paper we study the observational constraints that can be imposed on the coupling parameter, $\hat \alpha$, of the regularized version of the 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity. We use the scalar-tensor field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-08 Timothy Clifton , Pedro Carrilho , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , David J. Mulryne

The charge of an electron is vastly larger than its mass. We found that black hole evolution under Hawking evaporation is very sensitive to the value of electron charge. If the electron charge is weakened by a mere one order of magnitude,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-24 Yen Chin Ong

We prove that higher-dimension operators contribute positively to the entropy of a thermodynamically stable black hole at fixed mass and charge. Our results apply whenever the dominant corrections originate at tree level from quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-08 Clifford Cheung , Junyu Liu , Grant N. Remmen

We discuss implications of Weak gravity conjecture (WGC) for exotic D-brane instantons. In particular, WGC leads to indirect stringent bounds on non-perturbative superpotentials generated by exotic instantons, with many implications for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Andrea Addazi

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

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

We consider the problem of constructing cosmological solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations that contain multiple charged black holes. By considering the field equations as a set of constraint and evolution equations, we construct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-07 Rashida Bibi , Timothy Clifton , Jessie Durk

The Weak Gravity Conjecture is typically stated as a bound on the mass-to-charge ratio of a particle in the theory. Alternatively, it has been proposed that its natural formulation is in terms of the existence of a particle which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 Ofer Aharony , Eran Palti

We investigate the weak gravity bounds on the U(1) gauge theory and scalar field theories in various dimensional noncommutative space. Many results are obtained, such as the upper bound on the noncommutative scale $g_{YM}M_p$ for four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Qing-Guo Huang , Jian-Huang She

We present a complete proof of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in any perturbative bosonic string theory in spacetime dimension $D\ge6$. Our proof works by relating the black hole extremality bound to long range forces, which are more easily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 Ben Heidenreich , Matteo Lotito

The derivation of absolute (moduli-independent) U-invariants for all N>2 extended supergravities at D=4 in terms of (moduli-dependent) central and matter charges is reported. These invariants give a general definition of the ``topological''…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Laura Andrianopoli

In this letter we present an exact spherically symmetric and magnetically charged black hole solution with exponential model of nonlinear electrodynamics [S. Kruglov, Annals Phys. 378, 59-70 (2017)] in the context of 4D…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-27 Kimet Jusufi

In this addendum we complement the remarks made in ref[1] constraining the value of the cosmological constant $\Lambda_4$ in terms of neutrino masses. Those were based on a sharpened version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture as applied to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-20 Luis E. Ibanez , Victor Martin-Lozano , Irene Valenzuela

We explore black hole solutions and some of its physical properties in Einstein's theory in 4D, modified by a cubic gravity term and in the presence of non-linear electrodynamics. In the context of Effective Field Theories (EFT) and under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Gustavo Gutierrez-Cano , Gustavo Niz

In this paper, we investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for the Reissner-Nordstrom (R-N) AdS black hole in a restricted phase space thermodynamics (RPST). Also here, we consider energy flux and equivalence mass-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Jafar Sadeghi , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar

Recent gravitational wave observations allow us to probe gravity in the strong and dynamical field regime. In this paper, we focus on testing Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity which is motivated by string theory. In particular, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Zhenwei Lyu , Nan Jiang , Kent Yagi

Black holes are the simplest objects in the universe. They correspond to extreme deformations of spacetime geometry, and can exist even devoid of matter. In general relativity, (electro)vacuum black holes are uniquely determined by their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-29 Antonia Micol Frassino , Jorge V. Rocha

We consider string theory corrections to 4D black holes which solve the 5D vacuum Einstein equations. We find that the corrections vanish only for the extremal electric solution. We also show that for the non-extremal electric black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Itzhaki

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