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Status Confirmed
Seminar Series RENC-THEO
Subjects hep-th
Date Thursday 7 February 2019
Time 10:00
Institute IHP
Seminar Room 314
Speaker's Last Name Horowitz
Speaker's First Name Gary
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Speaker's Institution UCSB
Title The Mysterious Cosmic Censorship - Weak Gravity Connection
Abstract I will describe a surprising connection between two longstanding conjectures: Cosmic censorship and weak gravity. I will first present a class of counterexamples to (weak) cosmic censorship in anti-de Sitter spacetime. These are solutions in which the curvature grows without bound in a region of spacetime visible to infinity. I will then explain the weak gravity conjecture and show that when it is satisfied, these counterexamples go away. Various generalizations will be discussed, always with the same conclusion: the weak gravity conjecture removes potential counterexamples to cosmic censorship.
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