Garrett Goon, Carnegie-Mellon University

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Garrett Goon, Carnegie-Mellon University

September 23, 2019
2:10 PM - 3:10 PM
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Pupin Hall Theory Center, 8th Floor

Linking Corrections to Entropy and Extremality

I will prove that the leading perturbative corrections to the entropy and extremality bounds of black holes are directly proportional to each other, generically.  This fact is intimately related to the Weak Gravity Conjecture, as I will discuss. The proof is purely thermodynamic and applies to systems beyond the gravitational realm.