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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2022)013
Keywords
Black Holes in String Theory; Black Holes; Effective Field Theories
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DESC0007859]
- National Science Foundation [PHY1915038]
- Lehigh University's Lee Fellowship
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [758903]
- Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics
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This paper investigates the long-range force between zero-temperature black holes in two-derivative theories of gravity coupled to matter. It is found that the presence of massless scalar fields and four-derivative corrections can break the no-force condition for these black holes. By calculating the higher-derivative corrections to the scalar charges, it is determined that the higher-derivative corrected black holes can be either self-attractive or self-repulsive, depending on the values of the Wilson coefficients and scalar moduli VEVs.
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 presence of massless scalar fields and four-derivative corrections, zero-temperature black holes no longer need to obey the no-force condition. In this paper, we show how to calculate the long-range force between such black holes. We develop an efficient method for computing the higher-derivative corrections to the scalar charges when the theory has a shift symmetry, and compute the resulting force in a variety of examples. We find that higher-derivative corrected black holes may be self-attractive or self-repulsive, depending on the value of the Wilson coefficients and the VEVs of scalar moduli. Indeed, we find black hole solutions which are both superextremal and self-attractive. Furthermore, we present examples where no choice of higher-derivative coefficients allows for self-repulsive black hole states in all directions in charge space. This suggests that, unlike the Weak Gravity Conjecture, which may be satisfied by the black hole spectrum alone, the Repulsive Force Conjecture requires additional constraints on the spectrum of charged particles.
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