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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

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) bounds the mass of a particle by its charge. It is expected that this bound can not be below the ultraviolet cut-off scale of the effective theory. Recently, an extension of the WGC was proposed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Dieter Lust , Eran Palti

A series of corrections to general relativity have recently been applied to find the relationship between entropy and extremality-bound black holes. This relationship has been investigated for many black holes, such as charged AdS,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-03 Jafar Sadeghi , Saeed Noori Gashti , Izzet Sakalli , Behnam Pourhassan

The authors of arXiv:1610.01533 have recently proposed a stronger version of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC), based on which they concluded that all those non-supersymmetric AdS vacua that can be embedded within a constistent theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Ulf Danielsson , Giuseppe Dibitetto

We study quantum corrections in four-dimensional theories with $N=1$ supersymmetry in the context of Quantum Gravity Conjectures. According to the Emergent String Conjecture, infinite distance limits in quantum gravity either lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Daniel Klaewer , Seung-Joo Lee , Timo Weigand , Max Wiesner

The initial idea underlying the Weak Gravity Conjecture is that extremal black holes must always be "unstable", in the sense that they should slowly decay by emitting either particles or smaller black holes. Here we show that, when this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Brett McInnes

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

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

The mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) requires higher derivative corrections to extremal charged black holes to increase their charge-to-mass ratio. This allows decay via emission of a smaller extremal black hole. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Lars Aalsma , Gary Shiu

The weak gravity conjecture suggests that, in a self-consistent theory of quantum gravity, the strength of gravity is bounded from above by the strengths of the various gauge forces in the theory. In particular, this intriguing conjecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 Shahar Hod

Since 1970's, gedanken experiments have been devised to challenge the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC), which is the expectation that spacetime singularities will be hidden from faraway observers by event horizons so that classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 İbrahim Semiz , Koray Düztaş

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

We analyze the constraints on four-derivative corrections to 5d Einstein-Maxwell theory from the black hole Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC). We calculate the leading corrections to the extremal mass of asymptotically flat 5d charged solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Sera Cremonini , Callum R. T. Jones , James T. Liu , Brian McPeak , Yuezhang Tang

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 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

We study one-loop divergences in Einstein-Maxwell theory and their implications for the weak gravity conjecture. In particular, we show that renormalization of these divergences leads to positivity of higher-derivative corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-20 Anthony M. Charles

We investigate the interplay of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) in $F(R)$-Euler-Heisenberg black holes in Anti-de Sitter and de Sitter backgrounds. The solution is characterized by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Saeed Noori Gashti , Izzet Sakalli , Erdem Sucu , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Ankit Anand , Mohammad Ali S Afshar , Behnam Pourhassan , Jafar Sadeghi

We present a systematic analysis of the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) through Gedankenexperiments involving black hole perturbations induced by test particles. Our approach allows for the calculation of perturbations to any order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Kai-Peng Lu , Peng-Yu Wu , H. Lu

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

Pure theories of AdS$_3$ quantum gravity are conjectured to be dual to CFTs with sparse spectra of light primary operators. The sparsest possible spectrum consistent with modular invariance includes only black hole states above the vacuum.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Nathan Benjamin , Ethan Dyer , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Alexander Maloney , Eric Perlmutter