On the weak gravity conjecture in string theory with broken supersymmetry

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114738MaRDI QIDQ2186346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Quentin Bonnefoy, Severin Lüst, E. Dudas

Publication date 9 June 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

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)

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.

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