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SUMMARY:Connecting the weak gravity conjecture to the weak cosmic censorsh
 ip - Jorge Santos\, DAMTP\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20171018T131500Z
DTEND:20171018T141500Z
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CONTACT:David Marsh
DESCRIPTION:A surprising connection between the weak gravity conjecture an
 d the weak cosmic censorship has recently been proposed. In particular\, i
 t was argued that a promising class of counterexamples to cosmic censorshi
 p in four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Λ theory would be removed if charg
 ed particles (with sufficient charge) were present. We test this idea and 
 find that indeed if the weak gravity conjecture is true\, one cannot viola
 te the weak cosmic censorship this way. Remarkably\, the minimum value of 
 charge required to preserve the weak cosmic censorship appears to agree pr
 ecisely with that proposed by the weak gravity conjecture.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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