Naturalness and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
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Naturalness and the weak gravity conjecture.
The weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is an ultraviolet consistency condition asserting that an Abelian force requires a state of charge q and mass m with q>m/m_{Pl}. We generalize the WGC to product gauge groups and study its tension with the naturalness principle for a charged scalar coupled to gravity. Reconciling naturalness with the WGC either requires a Higgs phase or a low cutoff at Λ∼qm_{Pl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.051601