Holography, Supergravity, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Abstract

This dissertation represents work on three different subjects relating to quantum gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. First, we review a holographic computation of the one-loop corrections to the Weyl anomaly on Ricci flat backgrounds in six dimensions. This allows us to determine the correction to one linear combination of the anomaly coefficients. Then, we will show that these corrections may be obtained from the six-dimensional superconformal index. The second section covers consistent truncations on the Lunin-Maldacena background. We show how to restore minimal supersymmetry to this background by determining the reduction ansatz which includes the graviton and a gauge field of 5d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity. We also discuss our previously unpublished attempt to construct a truncation which includes a scalar field corresponding to the $\beta$-deformation parameter of the dual field theory. We show that if such a solution exists, it must differ drastically from the LM background. Finally, we discuss higher-derivative corrections to black hole solutions and the weak gravity conjecture in a few settings. First we compute higher-derivative corrections to the extremality bounds for black holes which are charged under an arbitrary number of $U(1)$ gauge fields, and determine the constraints implied by the WGC. Next we consider the higher-derivative corrections to thermodynamic quantities for charged black holes in Anti-de Sitter space. We confirm and clarify a previously noted relationship between the shift to the extremality bound and the shift to the Wald entropy. We also show that if the shift in the Wald entropy is assumed to be positive, then the coefficient of the $R_{\mu \nu \rho \sigma }{R}^{\mu \nu \rho \sigma }$ term in the effective Lagrangian must be positive as well.

arXiv comment183 pages. PhD thesis

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