19–23 Jun 2017
IFT (Madrid)
Europe/Madrid timezone

Weak gravity conjecture and black hole puzzles

20 Jun 2017, 17:00
15m
Grey Room 2 (IFT )

Grey Room 2

IFT

Nicolas Cabrera 13-15 Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spain
Parallel talk Parallel II

Speaker

Pablo Soler (ITP Heidelberg)

Description

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) has recently received much attention for its potential applications to models of large field inflation. Unfortunately, generic motivations behind the WGC remain somewhat weak. In this talk, I will discuss suggestive arguments hinting at the WGC in two different contexts: extremal black holes in Einstein-Maxwell theories, and 'axionic black holes' in theories with a massless two-form field.

Presentation type Parallel talk

Primary author

Pablo Soler (ITP Heidelberg)

Presentation materials