A comment on no-force conditions for black holes and branes

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABE01AzbMATH Open1481.83075arXiv2010.11590OpenAlexW3093571248MaRDI QIDQ5163344FDOQ5163344

Authors: Thomas Van Riet 

Publication date: 3 November 2021

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the context of the Weak Gravity Conjecture the notion of quasi-extremality for black holes and branes was recently defined as the property of having either vanishing horizon size or surface gravity. It was derived that such objects obey a no-force condition. In this short note I present a simplified derivation that is essentially present in the formalism of timelike reduction pioneered by Breitenlohner, Gibbons and Maison. This formalism also provides the natural definition of quasi-extremality for gravitational instantons (and wormholes) sourced by axion fluxes and strengthens the argument that macroscopic axion wormholes do not contribute in the path integral since they are self-repulsive in a Euclidean sense.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11590

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonsblack holesblack branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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