On the weak gravity conjecture in string theory with broken supersymmetry

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114738zbMATH Open1435.81154arXiv1811.11199OpenAlexW2903172999WikidataQ123114757 ScholiaQ123114757MaRDI QIDQ2186346FDOQ2186346

Authors: Quentin Bonnefoy, Severin Lüst, E. Dudas 

Publication date: 9 June 2020

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use type I string models with supersymmetry broken by compactification (`a la Scherk-Schwarz) in order to test the weak gravity conjecture in the presence of runaway potentials in a perturbative string theory setting. For a finite value of the supersymmetry breaking radius there is a runaway potential, which is the only possibility if one accepts the non-existence of de Sitter vacua. Although the weak gravity conjecture is valid in the decompactification limit, for fixed values of the radius we show that there are short-ranged attractive D1 brane-brane interactions. We argue however that at one-loop level the effective tension of the branes decreases and becomes smaller than the effective charge such that there is a long-ranged repulsive force and the weak gravity conjecture is respected. Moreover, for very small $g_s$ we expect a large number of stable bound states to be present.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11199

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

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