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Title: Duality and axionic weak gravity

Abstract

The axionic weak gravity conjecture predicts the existence of instantons whose actions are less than their charges in appropriate units. We show that the conjecture is satisfied for the axion-dilaton-gravity system if we assume duality constraints on the higher derivative corrections in addition to positivity bounds which follow from unitarity, analyticity, and locality of UV scattering amplitudes. On the other hand, the conjecture does not follow if we assume the positivity bounds only. This presents an example where derivation of the weak gravity conjecture requires more detailed UV information than the consistency of scattering amplitudes.

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Research Org.:
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1647276
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1802227
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011632; SC0017647; JP17H02894; JP18K13539; JP20H01902; JP18H04352; C-26400240; 15H05895; PHY-1607611
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 102 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics

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Andriolo, Stefano, Huang, Tzu-Chen, Noumi, Toshifumi, Ooguri, Hirosi, and Shiu, Gary. Duality and axionic weak gravity. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.046008.
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Andriolo, Stefano, Huang, Tzu-Chen, Noumi, Toshifumi, Ooguri, Hirosi, & Shiu, Gary. Duality and axionic weak gravity. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.046008
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Andriolo, Stefano, Huang, Tzu-Chen, Noumi, Toshifumi, Ooguri, Hirosi, and Shiu, Gary. Wed . "Duality and axionic weak gravity". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.046008.
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@article{osti_1647276,
title = {Duality and axionic weak gravity},
author = {Andriolo, Stefano and Huang, Tzu-Chen and Noumi, Toshifumi and Ooguri, Hirosi and Shiu, Gary},
abstractNote = {The axionic weak gravity conjecture predicts the existence of instantons whose actions are less than their charges in appropriate units. We show that the conjecture is satisfied for the axion-dilaton-gravity system if we assume duality constraints on the higher derivative corrections in addition to positivity bounds which follow from unitarity, analyticity, and locality of UV scattering amplitudes. On the other hand, the conjecture does not follow if we assume the positivity bounds only. This presents an example where derivation of the weak gravity conjecture requires more detailed UV information than the consistency of scattering amplitudes.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.102.046008},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 4,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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