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Title: A Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture from Infrared Consistency

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Abstract We analyze infrared consistency conditions of 3D and 4D effective field theories with massive scalars or fermions charged under multiple U (1) gauge fields. At low energies, one can integrate out the massive particles and thus obtain a one‐loop effective action for the gauge fields. In the regime where charge‐independent contributions to higher‐derivative terms in the action are sufficiently small, it is then possible to derive constraints on the charge‐to‐mass ratios of the massive particles from requiring that photons propagate causally and have an analytic S‐matrix. We thus find that the theories need to contain bifundamentals and satisfy a version of the weak gravity conjecture known as the convex‐hull condition. Demanding self‐consistency of the constraints under Kaluza‐Klein compactification, we furthermore show that, for scalars, they imply a stronger version of the weak gravity conjecture in which the charge‐to‐mass ratios of an infinite tower of particles are bounded from below. We find that the tower must again include bifundamentals but does not necessarily have to occupy a charge (sub‐)lattice.

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 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
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  1. Department of Physics and Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik Ruprecht‐Karls‐Universität Heidelberg Philosophenweg 19 69120 Heidelberg Germany
  3. Department of Physics Kobe University Kobe 657‐8501 Japan
  4. Department of Physics and Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, Department of Physics University of Wisconsin‐Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
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OSTI Identifier:
1435981
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de‐sc0017647
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Journal Name:
Fortschritte der Physik
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Fortschritte der Physik Journal Volume: 66 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0015-8208
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

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Andriolo, Stefano, Junghans, Daniel, Noumi, Toshifumi, and Shiu, Gary. A Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture from Infrared Consistency. Germany: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/prop.201800020.
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Andriolo, Stefano, Junghans, Daniel, Noumi, Toshifumi, & Shiu, Gary. A Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture from Infrared Consistency. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.201800020
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Andriolo, Stefano, Junghans, Daniel, Noumi, Toshifumi, and Shiu, Gary. Thu . "A Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture from Infrared Consistency". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.201800020.
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@article{osti_1435981,
title = {A Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture from Infrared Consistency},
author = {Andriolo, Stefano and Junghans, Daniel and Noumi, Toshifumi and Shiu, Gary},
abstractNote = {Abstract We analyze infrared consistency conditions of 3D and 4D effective field theories with massive scalars or fermions charged under multiple U (1) gauge fields. At low energies, one can integrate out the massive particles and thus obtain a one‐loop effective action for the gauge fields. In the regime where charge‐independent contributions to higher‐derivative terms in the action are sufficiently small, it is then possible to derive constraints on the charge‐to‐mass ratios of the massive particles from requiring that photons propagate causally and have an analytic S‐matrix. We thus find that the theories need to contain bifundamentals and satisfy a version of the weak gravity conjecture known as the convex‐hull condition. Demanding self‐consistency of the constraints under Kaluza‐Klein compactification, we furthermore show that, for scalars, they imply a stronger version of the weak gravity conjecture in which the charge‐to‐mass ratios of an infinite tower of particles are bounded from below. We find that the tower must again include bifundamentals but does not necessarily have to occupy a charge (sub‐)lattice.},
doi = {10.1002/prop.201800020},
journal = {Fortschritte der Physik},
number = 5,
volume = 66,
place = {Germany},
year = {Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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