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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

We investigate scalar-tensor theories, motivated by dark energy models, in the strong gravity regime around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. In such theories general relativity is modified since the scalar field couples to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-24 David Benisty , Anne-Christine Davis

A covariant scalar-tensor-vector gravity theory is developed which allows the gravitational constant $G$, a vector field coupling $\omega$ and the vector field mass $\mu$ to vary with space and time. The equations of motion for a test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-22 J. W. Moffat

We discuss some of the issues which we encounter when we try to invoke the scalar-tensor theories of gravitation as a theoretical basis of quintessence. One of the advantages of appealing to these theories is that they allow us to implement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Yasunori Fujii

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in extremal and near-extremal Kerr-Newman-(anti-)de Sitter black holes by the scattering of a massive scalar field with an electric charge. Under this scattering, the scalar field fluxes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Bogeun Gwak

We study a gravity theory where a scalar field with potential, beyond its minimal coupling, is also coupled through a non-minimal derivative coupling with the torsion scalar which is the teleparallel equivalent of Einstein gravity. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Georgios Kofinas

We conjecture that, in a renormalizable effective quantum field theory where the heaviest stable particle has mass $m$, there are no bound states with radius below $1/m$ (Bound State Conjecture). We are motivated by the (scalar) Weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Ben Freivogel , Thomas Gasenzer , Arthur Hebecker , Sascha Leonhardt

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

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

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

The weak gravity conjecture has been proposed as a criterion to distinguish the landscape from the swampland in string theory. As an application in cosmology of this conjecture, we use it to impose theoretical constraint on parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xing Wu , Zong-Hong Zhu

General relativity has passed all solar system experiments and neutron star based tests, such as binary pulsar observations, with flying colors. A more exotic arena for testing general relativity is in systems that contain one or more black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-19 Kent Yagi , Leo C. Stein

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

Under spherical symmetry, we show that the weak cosmic censorship holds for the gravitational collapse of the Einstein-Maxwell-charged scalar field system. Namely, for this system, with generic initial data, the formed spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Xinliang An , Hong Kiat Tan

A mild version of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) states that extremal black holes have charge-to-mass ratio larger or equal than one when higher-curvature interactions are taken into account. Since these corrections become more relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Pablo A. Cano , Tomas Ortin , Pedro F. Ramirez

A modification of the Maxwell equations due to the presence of a gravitational field was formerly proposed for a scalar theory with a preferred reference frame. With this modification, the electric charge is not conserved. The aim of the…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Mayeul Arminjon

The extreme-gravity collisions of binaries with one black hole and one neutron star provide for excellent tests of general relativity. We here study how well one can constrain theories beyond general relativity with additional scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Zack Carson , Brian C. Seymour , Kent Yagi

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

We study scenarios where a scalar field has a spatially varying vacuum expectation value such that the total field variation is super-Planckian. We focus on the case where the scalar field controls the coupling of a U(1) gauge field, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-16 Daniel Klaewer , Eran Palti

In this article we study weak gravitational lensing of regular Bardeen black hole which has scalar charge $g$ and mass $m.$ We investigate the angular position and magnification of non-relativistic images in two cases depending on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 Hossein Ghaffarnejad , Hassan Niad