Weak gravity versus scale separation
Abstract We give evidence that fully supersymmetric Anti-de Sitter vacua of extended supergravity with a residual gauge group containing an abelian factor cannot be scale separated as a consequence of the weak gravity conjecture. We prove this for N = 2 and N = 8 supergravity and we explain how our...
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| author | Niccolò Cribiori Gianguido Dall’Agata |
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| description | Abstract We give evidence that fully supersymmetric Anti-de Sitter vacua of extended supergravity with a residual gauge group containing an abelian factor cannot be scale separated as a consequence of the weak gravity conjecture. We prove this for N = 2 and N = 8 supergravity and we explain how our argument applies also to vacua with partially broken, but extended residual supersymmetry. We finally discuss possible loopholes and especially how certain N = 1 models can evade our reasoning. Our results suggest that N = 0, 1 supersymmetry at the lagrangian level might be the most promising chances to obtain a truly four-dimensional effective description of quantum gravity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b9a063a33c6244a7b9093963a4972ef42023-03-22T10:13:34ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792022-06-012022612310.1007/JHEP06(2022)006Weak gravity versus scale separationNiccolò Cribiori0Gianguido Dall’Agata1Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università di PadovaAbstract We give evidence that fully supersymmetric Anti-de Sitter vacua of extended supergravity with a residual gauge group containing an abelian factor cannot be scale separated as a consequence of the weak gravity conjecture. We prove this for N = 2 and N = 8 supergravity and we explain how our argument applies also to vacua with partially broken, but extended residual supersymmetry. We finally discuss possible loopholes and especially how certain N = 1 models can evade our reasoning. Our results suggest that N = 0, 1 supersymmetry at the lagrangian level might be the most promising chances to obtain a truly four-dimensional effective description of quantum gravity.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2022)006Supergravity ModelsSupersymmetric Effective TheoriesString and Brane Phenomenology |
| spellingShingle | Niccolò Cribiori Gianguido Dall’Agata Weak gravity versus scale separation Journal of High Energy Physics Supergravity Models Supersymmetric Effective Theories String and Brane Phenomenology |
| title | Weak gravity versus scale separation |
| title_full | Weak gravity versus scale separation |
| title_fullStr | Weak gravity versus scale separation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Weak gravity versus scale separation |
| title_short | Weak gravity versus scale separation |
| title_sort | weak gravity versus scale separation |
| topic | Supergravity Models Supersymmetric Effective Theories String and Brane Phenomenology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2022)006 |
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