Black hole extremality in nonlinear electrodynamics: a lesson for weak gravity and Festina Lente bounds

Autor: Yoshihiko Abe, Toshifumi Noumi, Kaho Yoshimura
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2023, Iss 9, Pp 1-38 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2023)024
Popis: Abstract 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 asymptotically flat spacetime, de Sitter spacetime, and anti-de Sitter spacetime. We find that in all cases the extremal condition enjoys a certain monotonicity expected by the WGC. This provides evidence for the conjecture beyond the leading order corrections to the Einstein-Maxwell theory. We also study how light charged particles modify the mass-charge relation of Nariai black holes in de Sitter spacetime and discuss possible implications for the FL bound. Besides, we point out an interesting similarity between our black hole analysis and gravitational positivity bounds on scattering amplitudes.
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