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The Entropy Shift and Extremality Shift at Zero Temperature
Brian McPeak
There is a well-established connection between the higher-derivative corrections to the black hole entropy and the black hole extremality bound. The particular combination of EFT c…
Classical Codes and Chiral CFTs at Higher Genus
Johan Henriksson, Ashish Kakkar, Brian McPeak
Higher genus modular invariance of two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) is a largely unexplored area. In this paper, we derive explicit expressions for the higher genus…
Repulsive Black Holes and Higher-Derivatives
Sera Cremonini, Callum R. T. Jones, James T. Liu +2
In two-derivative theories of gravity coupled to matter, charged black holes are self-attractive at large distances, with the force vanishing at zero temperature. However, in the p…
Holography, Supergravity, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Brian McPeak
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…
Rigorous Bounds on Light-by-Light Scattering
Johan Henriksson, Brian McPeak, Francesco Russo +1
We bound EFT coefficients appearing in photon scattering amplitudes in four dimensions. After reviewing unitarity and positivity conditions in this context, we use disper…