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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

Testing black hole's charged property is a fascinating topic in modified gravity and black hole astrophysics. In the first Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-1), ten binary black hole merger events have been formally reported, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-30 Hai-Tian Wang , Peng-Cheng Li , Jin-Liang Jiang , Guan-Wen Yuan , Yi-Ming Hu , Yi-Zhong Fan

Recent researches of the novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity have attracted great attention. In this paper, we investigate the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for a novel $4D$ charged EGB black hole with test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-04 Si-Jiang Yang , Jun-Jie Wan , Jing Chen , Jie Yang , Yong-Qiang Wang

Recently, it has been argued that application of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to spin-2 fields implies a universal upper bound on the cutoff of the effective theory for a single spin-2 field. We point out here that these arguments are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Claudia de Rham , Lavinia Heisenberg , Andrew J. Tolley

We derive the weak field limit of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory and place novel bounds on the parameter space using terrestrial and space-based experiments. In order to analyze the theory in the context of a wide range of experiments, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Benjamin Elder , Jeremy Sakstein

We explore the notion of approximate global symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity. We show that a variety of conjectures about quantum gravity, including the weak gravity conjecture, the distance conjecture, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Clay Cordova , Kantaro Ohmori , Tom Rudelius

Microscopic charged black holes can provide possibilities to test the consistency of the effective field theory (EFT) corrections to Einstein-Maxwell theory. A particularly interesting result is fixing the sign of a certain combination of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Giorgio Di Russo , Anna Tokareva

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

Taking a thermodynamic perspective, we study the weak gravity conjecture in the context of 4D Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory. We find closed-form expressions for the corrected thermodynamic quantities in the presence of four-derivative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Gregory J. Loges , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu

In this paper, we focus on the possible correlation between conjectures KSS bound and weak gravity conjecture (WGC). The hydrodynamic values KSS bound and weak gravity conjecture constraint the low-energy effective field theory. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 E. Naghd Mezerji , J. Sadeghi

Using the recent observation of gravitational waves (GW) produced by a black-hole merger, we place a lower bound on the energy above which a multifractal spacetime would display an anomalous geometry and, in particular, violations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-09 Gianluca Calcagni

The Weak Gravity Conjecture imposes stringent constraints on effective field theories to allow for an ultraviolet completion within quantum gravity. While substantial evidence supports the conjecture across broad classes of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Stefano Lanza

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

Recently, the non-trivial solutions for 4-dimensional black holes of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity had been discovered. In this paper, considering a charged particle entering into a 4-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet-Maxwell black hole, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Shuxuan Ying

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 study black hole extremality in nonlinear electrodynamics motivated by the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and the Festina Lente (FL) bound. For illustration, we consider the Euler-Heisenberg model and the Dirac-Born-Infeld model in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-13 Yoshihiko Abe , Toshifumi Noumi , Kaho Yoshimura

It seems that the regime of Hawking radiation and evaporation ultimately drives charged black holes toward super-extremality of the charge parameter and the dominance of extremal conditions. This progression, in turn, lays the groundwork…

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

In the framework of the new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald, we investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion (EMDA) black hole. Our result shows that no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Hai-Feng Ding , Xiang-Hua Zhai

In this work, we study the implications of GW230529 on gravity theories and the charge of black holes. The GW230529, which was initially released in O4a, is most likely neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers. We reanalyze the data from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-15 Bo Gao , Shao-Peng Tang , Hai-Tian Wang , Jingzhi Yan , Yi-Zhong Fan
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