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We take a fresh look at the viability of physically realistic extremal black holes within our (non-supersymmetric) low energy physics. By incorporating prefactors and volume effects, we show that Schwinger discharge in charge neutral…

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A possible violation of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) by cosmic censorship is one of the major challenges in the field of general relativity. However, in this paper, we explore the possibility of reconciling the WGC and the WCCC by…

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Using some probes, the violation of cosmic censorship conjecture in a general Kerr-Newman black hole is investigated. The result depends on many factors, like the relative sign of charge and rotation direction of the probe and black hole.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 H. Khodabakhshi , F. Shojai

We evaluate the validity of the weak form of the cosmic censorship conjecture and the third law of black hole dynamics for Kerr-MOG black holes interacting with scalar test fields. Ignoring backreaction effects, we first show that both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-17 Koray Düztaş

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture by analyzing the dynamics of spinning timelike particles dropped along the rotational axis of an extremal Kerr (anti)de Sitter black hole. This idea was first considered in a seminal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Antonia M. Frassino , Jorge V. Rocha , Andrea P. Sanna

Here it is shown that the variation in the fine structure constant measured by Webb et al. matches the theoretically derived value for the maximum variation in the electronic charge permitted by the Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics…

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We carry out the holographic renormalization of Einstein-Maxwell theory with curvature-squared corrections. In particular, we demonstrate how to construct the generalized Gibbons-Hawking surface term needed to ensure a perturbatively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-19 Sera Cremonini , James T. Liu , Phillip Szepietowski

We test whether static charged dilaton black holes in 2+1 dimensions can be turned into naked singularities, by sending in test particles from infinity. We derive that overcharging is possible and generic for both extremal and nearly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-01 Koray Düztaş , Mubasher Jamil

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

To address the singularity problem in black hole physics, Penrose proposed the cosmic censorship conjecture . However, whether this conjecture holds in different types of black holes, especially for the Strong Cosmic Censorship Conjecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhiqin Tu , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

In this paper, we explore the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) within the context of photon spheres in charged black holes, framed by Perfect Fluid in Rastall Theory. We aim to validate the WGC by identifying the extremality states of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Saeed Noori Gashti , İzzet Sakallı , Behnam Pourhassan

The cosmic censorship hypothesis, introduced by Penrose forty years ago, is one of the corner stones of general relativity. This conjecture asserts that spacetime singularities that arise in gravitational collapse are always hidden inside…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Shahar Hod

We correlate the weak gravity conjecture (WGC), the KSS conjecture with chemical potential at extremality and the central charges by going through a particular example in five dimensional AdS spacetime with two unknown coefficients $c_1,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-16 Shesansu Sekhar Pal

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 investigate a gedanken experiment to destroy an extremally charged black hole by dropping a test particle, provided that there are multiple $U(1)$ gauge fields coupled with each other through higher derivative interactions. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-19 Keisuke Izumi , Toshifumi Noumi , Daisuke Yoshida

The strong cosmic censorship conjecture states (SCCC) that one cannot extend spacetime beyond the Cauchy horizon with a square-integrable connection. This conjecture was postulated to save the deterministic nature of the most successful…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-03 Chiranjeeb Singha , Naresh Dadhich

We investigate the behavior of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) under toroidal compactification and RG flows, finding evidence that WGC bounds for single photons become weaker in the infrared. By contrast, we find that a photon satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

We study the quasi-normal modes of the charged scalar perturbations in the background of the Einstein-Maxwell-aether black hole through three methods (WKB method, continued fraction method, generalized eigenvalue method). Then we propose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Wei Xiong , Peng Liu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Chao Niu

It was recently shown that Strong Cosmic Censorship may be violated in highly charged black-hole spacetimes living in a universe with a positive cosmological constant. Several follow-up works have since suggested that such result, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Vitor Cardoso , Joao L. Costa , Kyriakos Destounis , Peter Hintz , Aron Jansen

Today we have quite stringent constraints on possible violations of the Weak Equivalence Principle from the comparison of the acceleration of test-bodies of different composition in Earth's gravitational field. In the present paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Rittick Roy , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Shafqat Riaz , Ashutosh Tripathi