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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