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We investigate the correlated stability conjecture for AdS black holes obtained from the higher dimensional Ricci cubic gravity. It shows that the Ricci tensor perturbations exhibit unstable modes for small AdS black holes when solving…

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Within the known landscape of quantum gravity, most theories satisfy the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture (LWGC), which requires a superextremal particle at every site in the electric charge lattice $\Gamma$. However, counterexamples to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

In a gravitational theory with a massless photon the maximum charge-to-mass ratio of black holes approaches the prediction of the Einstein-Maxwell theory as black hole mass increases: $Q_{\rm ext}/M =1+ \alpha/M^2$ for some constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-09 Mehrdad Mirbabayi

Exploring the four-dimensional AdS black hole is crucial within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this research, considering the charged scenario, we investigate the four-dimensional stationary and rotating AdS solutions in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 G. G. L. Nashed

Scalar weak gravity conjectures (SWGCs) attempt to pinpoint the ranges of couplings consistent with a fundamental theory of all interactions. We identify a generic dynamical consequence of these conjectures for cosmology and show that SWGCs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-30 Alexander Kusenko , Volodymyr Takhistov , Masaki Yamada , Masahito Yamazaki

We analyze the gravitational dynamics of a classical scalar field coupled to gravity in asymptotically AdS spacetime, which leads to black hole formation on the shortest nonlinear time scale for some initial conditions. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Ben Freivogel , I-Sheng Yang

In this paper, we study the thermodynamics and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture of the RN-AdS black hole surrounded by the quintessence under the scattering of a charged complex scalar field. With scalar field scattering, the variation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-06 Wei Hong , Benrong Mu , Jun Tao

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

Gravitational-wave observations of coalescing binary systems allow for novel tests of the strong-field regime of gravity. Using data from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC) of the LIGO and Virgo detectors, we place the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-03 Noah Sennett , Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Victor Gorbenko , Leonardo Senatore

We study extremal black hole solutions of D=5 Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a system of gauge and scalar fields. As in Einstein gravity, we find that the values of the scalar fields on the horizon must extremize a certain effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-30 Mohamed M. Anber , David Kastor

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study the thermalization of a strongly coupled conformal field theory that is forced out of its vacuum by a source that couples to a marginal operator. The source is taken to be of small amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Sayantani Bhattacharyya , Shiraz Minwalla

It is well known that global topological defects induce a repulsive gravitational potential for test particles. 'What is the gravitational potential induced by black holes with a cosmological constant (Schwarzschild-de Sitter (S-dS) metric)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 L. Perivolaropoulos

We conjecture a general upper bound on the strength of gravity relative to gauge forces in quantum gravity. This implies, in particular, that in a four-dimensional theory with gravity and a U(1) gauge field with gauge coupling g, there is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Lubos Motl , Alberto Nicolis , Cumrun Vafa

In this article, we test the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (wCCC) in the background of a quantum Kerr-de Sitter (qKdS) black hole, incorporating exact backreaction from quantum matter fields. Using a test particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Ankit Anand , Ankur Dey

The tower Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts infinitely many super-extremal states along every ray in the charge lattice of a consistent quantum gravity theory. We show this far-reaching claim in five-dimensional compactifications of M-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Cesar Fierro Cota , Alessandro Mininno , Timo Weigand , Max Wiesner

Recently, Fernandes discovered an analytic solution for rotating black holes in semiclassical gravity induced by the trace anomaly. These solutions exhibit some distinctive characteristics, including a non-spherically symmetric event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Jie Jiang , Ming Zhang

We test the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for magnetized Kerr-Newman spacetime via the method of injecting a test particle. Hence, we need to know how the black hole's parameters change when a test particle enters the horizon. This was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Yunjiao Gao , Sijie Gao

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 construct black holes with scalar hair in a wide class of four-dimensional N=2 Fayet-Iliopoulos gauged supergravity theories that are characterized by a prepotential containing one free parameter. Considering the truncated model in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-25 Federico Faedo , Dietmar Klemm , Masato Nozawa

Recently, Li and Bambi proposed a hypothesis that the event horizon of a regular black hole can be destroyed because these objects have no gravitational singularity and therefore they are not protected by the weak cosmic censorship…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Jie Jiang , Yunjiao Gao