Planar Black Holes as a Route to Understanding the Weak Gravity Conjecture
arXiv:2201.01939 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2022.115933
Abstract
One version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture requires that it should be possible for an extremal black hole to emit a smaller black hole: that is, the original black hole bifurcates. For asymptotically flat and asymptotically AdS Reissner-Nordström black holes with spherical event horizons, such a bifurcation reduces the total classical entropy of the system, and so it is apparently forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics. It may well be possible to remedy this by taking other (for example, quantum-gravitational) effects into account, but it is difficult to understand this in a quantitative way. In the case of asymptotically AdS Reissner-Nordström black holes with \emph{planar} event horizons, however, one can show that bifurcations are definitely compatible with the second law. (Naked singularities, generated by the bifurcation, may play an important role here.) Furthermore, in this case one can exhibit a detailed mechanism explaining precisely why planar black holes must indeed be unstable (through emission of branes) when they are sufficiently close to extremality. Thus planar black holes can improve our understanding of the WGC.
Non-dependence of results on energy conditions stressed; 18 pages, no figures; version appearing in NPB
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