Bootstrap bound on extremal Reissner-Nordström black hole in AdS

2020/04/17 by Yu Nakayama
Physics and Astronomy · #AdS black hole #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Bound state #Conformal map #Conjecture #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Holography #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #Spectrum (functional analysis) #Theoretical physics #Upper and lower bounds #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135677

10 pages

arxiv created 2020/04/17 · openalex publication_date 2020/08/05 · arxiv updated 2020/08/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Based on the numerical conformal bootstrap bound, we show that the arbitrarily small Reissner-Nordström black hole in AdS space-time is inconsistent with holography unless the energy spectrum is modified quantum mechanically or it is unstable as indicated by the weak gravity conjecture.

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