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gr-qc2026

Living on the Edge of Effective Field Theory: Near-Extremal Black Holes in Quadratic Gravity

Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, Gary T. Horowitz, Nicolás Yunes

Near-extremal black holes can amplify higher-derivative corrections to general relativity, making them sharp probes of the perturbative control of gravitational effective field the…

hep-th2026

Dirichlet walls and the end of time

Hanako Helton, Gary T. Horowitz, Donald Marolf

The paper investigates how imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions on a finite surface in Einstein-Hilbert gravity can cause evolutions to end in finite time due to singularities re…

hep-th2026

Axions Create Singularities on Extremal Horizons

Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Grant N. Remmen +1

We show that axions cause extremal black holes to have singular horizons. This is true for almost all values of the axion mass and coupling provided the black hole is rotating and…

hep-th2025

Frozen Firewall: Generic Singularity Formation on an Extremal Horizon

Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Jorge E. Santos

It is known that linearized perturbations of extremal black holes result in growing curvature on the horizon. However, nonlinear perturbations typically do not evolve to extremal b…

hep-th2025

Constraints are not enough

Gary T. Horowitz, Donald Marolf, Jorge E. Santos

The Euclidean Einstein-Hilbert action is well-known to be unbounded below and thus to raise many questions regarding the definition of the gravitational path integral. A variety of…