Non-supersymmetric AdS and the Swampland

By Hirosi Ooguri, C. Vafa. 2016

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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.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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A stringy test of the Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture (2018, background): “From a more applied point of view, its generalization to p-form interactions for p = 0 constrains theories of large field inflation, as reflected in a substantial corpus of work including [18–38] (for additional aspects of this axionic Weak Gravity Conjecture see [39–41]); other versions affect the ”
What if string theory has no de Sitter vacua? (2018, background): “In any case perhaps the best one can expect of non-SUSY AdS vacua in string theory is that they can be meta-stable but not fully stable [183], because there is no symmetry preventing the decay.”
De Sitter Space and the Swampland (2018, background): “This example motivates the following weaker version of our conjecture, closer in spirit to [34]: As we get close to small |∇V |/V , a tower of light modes must appear with masses of the order of exp(−c̃ V/|∇V |) in Planck units and invalidates the effective field theory.”
Lectures on the Swampland Program in String Compactifications (2021, methodology): “The conjecture first appeared a few years ago in [46,93].”
The Swampland Conjectures: A Bridge from Quantum Gravity to Particle Physics (2021, methodology): “From there, the absence of non-supersymmetric, stable, AdS vacua in the landscape was also argued [58], together with the Festina Lente bound, which was originally motivated by black hole decay arguments similar to the ones behind the Weak Gravity Conjecture but in dS space [66,67].”
The Swampland: Introduction and Review (2019, background): “rsymmetry there always exists such a brane, and so AdS space supported by ux carries an intrinsic instability [394]. While this shows that AdS space supported by ux is unstable, it was conjectured in [396] that this instability is part of a more general phenomenon and that any non-supersymmetric 141”