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We search for a possible relation between weak gravity conjecture and conformal field theory in the hyperscaling violating and Kerr-Newman-AdS black holes. We deal with the critical points of the black hole systems through the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Jafar Sadeghi , Mehdi Shokri , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti

We consider the shift of charge-to-mass ratio for extremal black holes in the context of effective field theory, motivated by the Weak Gravity Conjecture. We constrain extremality corrections in different regimes subject to unitarity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yu-tin Huang , Jin-Yu Liu , Grant N. Remmen

Weak gravity conjecture can be formulated as a statement that gravity must be the weakest force, compared to the other interactions in low energy effective field theory (EFT). Several arguments in favor of this statement were presented from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Anna Tokareva , Yongjun Xu

In this paper, we investigate the strong cosmic censorship conjecture (SCC) for charged black holes in the de Sitter space by considering the weak gravity conjecture (WGC). Using analytical methods, we find that the SCC is preserved for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Jafar Sadeghi , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti

We derive new positivity bounds for scattering amplitudes in theories with a massless graviton in the spectrum in four spacetime dimensions, of relevance for the weak gravity conjecture and modified gravity theories. The bounds imply that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Brando Bellazzini , Matthew Lewandowski , Javi Serra

We present a semiclassical proof of the weak gravity conjecture in $D = 4$ spacetime dimensions for scalar matter gauged under a $U(1)^N$ gauge group. We compute the non-perturbative macroscopic entropy of a scalar field in an extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-18 Zachary Fisher , Christopher J. Mogni

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 investigate the constraints imposed by the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) on gravitational lensing in gravity's rainbow, focusing in particular on scenarios beyond extremality and on the interplay between the WGC and the Weak Cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan , Izzet Sakallı

We propose a new version of the scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) which would apply to any scalar field coupled to quantum gravity. For a single scalar it is given by the differential constraint $V''\leq…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Eduardo Gonzalo , Luis E. Ibáñez

We prove a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for 6d F-theory or heterotic string compactifications with 8 supercharges. This sharpens our previous analysis by including massless scalar fields. The latter are known to modify the Weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Seung-Joo Lee , Wolfgang Lerche , Timo Weigand

In this paper, we first introduce the Riesner-Nordstrom AdS (RN-AdS) black hole in presence of quintessence and cloud of strings. And then we use the Restrict Phase Space $(RPS)$ formalism in the corresponding black holes at the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Jafar Sadeghi , Mehdi Shokri

Recently, a non-trivial $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as $\alpha/(D-4)$, was formulated in \cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypasses Lovelock's theorem and avoids Ostrogradsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Shafqat Ul Islam , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this study, we investigate the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) for a quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordstr\"om Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole embedded in Kiselev spacetime. By making small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Ankit Anand , Anshul Mishra , Phongpichit Channuie

We consider the gravitational correction to the running of gauge coupling. Weak gravity conjecture implies that the gauge theories break down when the gravitational correction becomes greater than the contribution from gauge theories. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Qing-Guo Huang

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

Apart from the Kerr-Newman black holes, the hairy black holes in general relativity have been widely investigated in the gravity and cosmology. In this paper, we extend the Sorce-Wald method to prove the weak cosmic censorship conjecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-10 Aofei Sang , Jie Jiang

The weak gravity conjecture implies the necessary existence of particles with charge-to-mass ratio $q/m \geq 1$ so that the extremal charged black hole can completely evaporate without leaving a dangerous stable extremal remnant while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-15 Rance Solomon , Dejan Stojkovic

In theories with a perturbatively massless 2-form (dual to an axion), a paradox may arise in the process of black hole evaporation. Schwarzschild black holes can support a non-trivial Wilson-line-type field, the integral of the 2-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Arthur Hebecker , Pablo Soler

We study the effect of higher-derivative corrections on asymptotically flat, four-dimensional, non-rotating dyonic black holes in low-energy models of gravity coupled to $N$ $U(1)$ gauge fields. For large extremal black holes, the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Callum R. T. Jones , Brian McPeak

We study (near-)circular orbits of charged particles in the background of charged black holes in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes of arbitrary dimensionality. We calculate the energy and angular momentum of such particles in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-13 Upamanyu Moitra