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In recent literature, it has been argued that a mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is satisfied by wide classes of effective field theories in which higher-derivative corrections can be shown to shift the charge-to-mass ratios…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-06 Lars Aalsma , Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

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…

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) demands the existence of superextremal particles in any consistent quantum theory of gravity. The standard lore is that these particles are introduced to ensure that extremal black holes are either unstable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-09 Miguel Montero

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

In this work, we investigate the extension of our recent proposal for the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in AdS space to more general effective field theories. We first extend the conjecture to set-ups where moduli are present and we demand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Puxin Lin , Alessandro Mininno , Gary Shiu

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 arises from the requirement that it be possible for all (classically stable) extremal black holes to decay. The ``black hole version'' of the conjecture requires that it should be possible for this to occur…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Brett McInnes

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) posits that gravity must be the weakest force in any consistent theory of quantum gravity. Originally formulated to constrain the landscape of effective field theories arising from string theory, the WGC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Gayatri Ghosh

The mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture states that quantum or higher-derivative corrections should decrease the mass of large extremal charged black holes at fixed charge. This allows extremal black holes to decay, unless protected by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Lars Aalsma , Alex Cole , Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

We investigate the behavior of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) under toroidal compactification and RG flows, finding evidence that WGC bounds for single photons become weaker in the infrared. By contrast, we find that a photon satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

In this paper, we explore the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) within the context of photon spheres in charged black holes, framed by Perfect Fluid in Rastall Theory. We aim to validate the WGC by identifying the extremality states of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Saeed Noori Gashti , İzzet Sakallı , Behnam Pourhassan

We explore possible extensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to scalar field theories. To avoid charged black hole remnants, the WGC requires the existence of a particle with a mass $m < g q M_P$, with charge $q$ and U(1) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-22 Emilian Dudas , Tony Gherghetta , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

Motivated by the desire to improve our understanding of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, we compute the one-loop correction of charged particles to the geometry and entropy of extremal black holes in 4d. We find that fermion loops provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-30 William Cottrell , Gary Shiu , Pablo Soler

The black hole weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is a set of linear inequalities on the four-derivative corrections to Einstein--Maxwell theory. Remarkably, in four dimensions, these combinations appear in the $2 \to 2$ photon amplitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Johan Henriksson , Brian McPeak , Francesco Russo , Alessandro Vichi

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

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is a proposed constraint on theories with gauge fields and gravity, requiring the existence of light charged particles and/or imposing an upper bound on the field theory cutoff $\Lambda$. If taken as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Prashant Saraswat

We examine the minimal constraints imposed by the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) on the particle spectrum of a quantum gravity theory. Towers of super-extremal states have previously been argued to be required for consistency of the WGC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-20 Cesar Fierro Cota , Alessandro Mininno , Timo Weigand , Max Wiesner

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

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 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
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