Non-supersymmetric AdS and the Swampland

Ooguri, Hirosi; Vafa, Cumrun

doi:10.4310/ATMP.2017.v21.n7.a8

Non-supersymmetric AdS and the Swampland

Hirosi Ooguri
(
- Caltech and
- Tokyo U., IPMU
)
,
Cumrun Vafa
(
- Harvard U., Phys. Dept.
)

Oct 5, 2016

15 pages

Published in:

Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 21 (2017) 1787-1801

Published: 2017

e-Print:

1610.01533 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.4310/ATMP.2017.v21.n7.a8

Report number:

CALT-TH-2016-027,
IPMU16-0139

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We propose to sharpen the weak gravity conjecture by the statement that, except for BPS states in a supersymmetric theory, the gravitational force is strictly weaker than any electric force and provide a number of evidences for this statement. Our conjecture implies that any non-supersymmetric anti-de Sitter vacuum supported by fluxes must be unstable, as is the case for all known attempts at such holographic constructions.

Note:

14 pages

force: gravitation
anti-de Sitter
supersymmetry
holography
BPS
weak coupling
stability
symmetry breaking
U(1)
membrane model

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