Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Recent studies on extremal black holes within effective field theories (EFT) of gravity have revealed an intriguing phenomenon: tidal forces near the horizon experience significant enhancement due to EFT corrections, potentially leading to a breakdown of the EFT framework. In this work, we investigate this effect in a two-black-hole Majumdar-Papapetrou spacetime modified by four-derivative EFT correction terms. Our analysis shows that while the scaling exponents, which measure the strength of the tidal forces near the horizon, remain unchanged under EFT corrections in $D=4$, they decrease for higher dimensions, enhancing the near-horizon tidal forces. However, even in the presence of EFT corrections, these scaling exponents stay well behaved and no such cases arise where the two-derivative contributions vanish and only the higher-derivative terms contribute. We find an expression for the EFT corrections to the scaling exponents till $D\ensuremath{\le}10$ and demonstrate that the metric corrections can be structured such that only the near-horizon ${\mathrm{AdS}}_{2}$ throat undergoes angle-dependent modifications, while the transverse ${S}^{D\ensuremath{-}2}$ sector remains unaffected.
DOI: 10.1103/mdfj-3hws
Authors: Soham Acharya, Shuvayu Roy, Sudipta Sarkar
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G3762472679
OpenAlex ID: W4415262092