Evidence for a sublattice weak gravity conjecture

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2017)025MaRDI QIDQ1700095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius

Publication date 2 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08437

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceblack holes in string theorygauge symmetrymodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: The Weak Gravity Conjecture postulates the existence of superextremal charged particles, i.e. those with mass smaller than or equal to their charge in Planck units. We present further evidence for our recent observation that in known examples a much stronger statement is true: an infinite tower of superextremal particles of different charges exists. We show that effective Kaluza-Klein field theories and perturbative string vacua respect the Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture, namely that a finite index sublattice of the full charge lattice exists with a superextremal particle at each site. In perturbative string theory we show that this follows from modular invariance. However, we present counterexamples to the stronger possibility that a superextremal particle exists at every lattice site, including an example in which the lightest charged particle is subextremal. The Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture has many implications both for abstract theories of quantum gravity and for real-world physics. For instance, it implies that if a gauge group with very small coupling $e$ exists, then the fundamental gravitational cutoff energy of the theory is no higher than $sim{e}^{1/3}{M}_{mPl}$.

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