The weak gravity conjecture and scalar fields

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2017)034MaRDI QIDQ1700104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eran Palti

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/1705.04328

zbMATH Keywords

black holes in string theoryCalabi-Yau compactificationeffective field theoriesmodels of quantum gravitysuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: We propose a generalisation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in the presence of scalar fields. The proposal is guided by properties of extremal black holes in $calN=2$ supergravity, but can be understood more generally in terms of forbidding towers of stable gravitationally bound states. It amounts to the statement that there must exist a particle on which the gauge force acts more strongly than gravity and the scalar forces combined. We also propose that the scalar force itself should act on this particle stronger than gravity. This implies that generically the mass of this particle decreases exponentially as a function of the scalar field expectation value for super-Planckian variations, which is behaviour predicted by the Refined Swampland Conjecture. In the context of $calN=2$ supergravity the Weak Gravity Conjecture bound can be tied to bounds on scalar field distances in field space. Guided by this, we present a general proof that for any linear combination of moduli in any Calabi-Yau compactification of string theory the proper field distance grows at best logarithmically with the moduli values for super-Planckian distances.

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