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In the presence of large extra dimensions, the fundamental Planck scale can be much lower than the apparent four-dimensional Planck scale. In this setup, the weak gravity conjecture implies a much more stringent constraint on the UV cutoff…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Guo Huang

The Weak Gravity Conjecture is typically stated as a bound on the mass-to-charge ratio of a particle in the theory. Alternatively, it has been proposed that its natural formulation is in terms of the existence of a particle which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 Ofer Aharony , Eran Palti

Motivated by string theory, we propose that non-local quantum corrections to large extremal black holes must be suppressed by local higher-derivative terms (classical corrections). We show that this condition implies the species bound in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-18 Hessamaddin Arfaei , Alek Bedroya , Mahdi Torabian

The singularity problem has always been a focus of physicists' research. In order to solve this problem, Penrose proposed the cosmic censorship conjecture, but verifying this conjecture in different situations still faces many challenges.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Zhiqin Tu , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We investigate several phenomenological implications of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC). We find that the WGC implies that the SM neutrinos must be electrically neutral, that the electric charge in the SM must be quantized, and that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-31 Fayez Abu-Ajamieh , Nobuchika Okada , Sudhir K Vempati

The Weak Gravity Conjecture is a nontrivial conjecture about quantum gravity that makes sharp, falsifiable predictions which can be checked in a broad range of string theory examples. However, in the presence of massless scalar fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-02 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) violation through the absorption of a charged, rotating test particle by Kerr Newman spacetime in modified gravity (KN MOG). The result is sensitive to multiple factors, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Waqar Ahmad , Abdul Rehman Kashif

We combine old and new quantum field theoretic arguments to show that any theory of stable or metastable higher spin particles can be coupled to gravity only when the gravity sector has a stringy structure. Metastable higher spin particles,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Jared Kaplan , Sandipan Kundu

The Sharpened Distance Conjecture and Tower Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture are closely related but distinct conjectures, neither one implying the other. Motivated by examples, I propose that both are consequences of two new conjectures: 1.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Muldrow Etheredge

As a charged spinning fermion drops into a charged rotating BTZ black hole, we investigate the laws of thermodynamics and weak cosmic censorship conjecture with and without pressure respectively. For the case without pressure, the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Xin-Yun Hu

It is well known that ($2+1$) dimensional charged BTZ (Banados, Teitelboim, Zanelli) black hole can be overcharged by a charged scalar field and a charged particle in contrast to their analogues in ($3+1$) and higher dimensions. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-06 Ayyesha K. Ahmed , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture states that the black hole singularity is hidden inside the event horizon of the black hole, making it impossible for an external observer to measure. In this study, we investigate the weak cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Meirong Tang , Lai Zhao , Zhaoyi Xu

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

The new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald are designed to test the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) by overspinning or overcharging the Kerr-Newman black hole in Einstein-Maxwell gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-27 Zhen Li , Yunjiao Gao , Xiao-Kan Guo

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

Vacuum quasi-topological gravity with infinitely many terms in the action satisfies Markov's limiting curvature hypothesis: the spherically symmetric solutions are regular and all curvature invariants are bounded by solution-independent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Pablo Bueno , Robie A. Hennigar , Ángel J. Murcia , Aitor Vicente-Cano

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

The thermodynamics and weak cosmic censorship conjecture in extended phase spaces of charged anti-de Sitter black holes describing the massive gravity are investigated by the absorptions of the scalar particle and fermion. The cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Deyou Chen

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

We propose a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture that applies to AdS spacetime. We find that the condition on the charge-to-mass ratio of a charged particle in AdS$_D$ spacetime is corrected compared to the one in Minkowski spacetime by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Puxin Lin , Alessandro Mininno , Gary Shiu
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