Instanton Resummation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-12-30 v1
Abstract
We develop methods for resummation of instanton lattice series. Using these tools, we investigate the consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for large-field axion inflation. We find that the Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture implies a constraint on the volume of the axion fundamental domain. However, we also identify conditions under which alignment and clockwork constructions, and a new variant of N-flation that we devise, can evade this constraint. We conclude that some classes of low-energy effective theories of large-field axion inflation are consistent with the strongest proposed form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, while others are not.
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@article{arxiv.1910.14053,
title = {Instanton Resummation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture},
author = {Ben Heidenreich and Cody Long and Liam McAllister and Tom Rudelius and John Stout},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.14053},
year = {2020}
}
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42 pages, 6 figures