Dilatonic (Anti-)de Sitter Black Holes and Weak Gravity Conjecture

Abstract: Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with non-trivial dilaton potential is known to admit asymptotically flat and (Anti-)de Sitter charged black hole solutions. We investigate the conditions for the presence of horizons as function of the parameters mass $M$, charge $Q$ and dilaton coupling strength $\alpha$. We observe that there is a value of $\alpha$ which separate two regions, one where the black hole is Reissner-Nordstr\"om-like from a region where it is Schwarzschild-like. We find that for de Sitter and small non-vanishing $\alpha$, the extremal case is not reached by the solution. We also discuss the attractive or repulsive nature of the leading long distance interaction between two such black holes, or a test particle and one black hole, from a world-line effective field theory point of view. Finally, we discuss possible modifications of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in the presence of both a dilatonic coupling and a cosmological constant.