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Weak gravity conjecture in the asymptotical dS and AdS background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

The cosmological observations provide a strong evidence that there is a positive cosmological constant in our universe and thus the spacetime is asymptotical de Sitter space. The conjecture of gravity as the weakest force in the asymptotical dS space leads to a lower bound on the U(1) gauge coupling gg, or equivalently, the positive cosmological constant gets an upper bound ρVg2Mp4\rho_V \leq g^2 M_p^4 in order that the U(1) gauge theory can survive in four dimensions. This result has a simple explanation in string theory, i.e. the string scale α\sqrt{\alpha '} should not be greater than the size of the cosmic horizon. Our proposal in string theory can be generalized to U(N) gauge theory and gives a guideline to the microscopic explanation of the de Sitter entropy. The similar results are also obtained in the asymptotical anti-de Sitter space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0603127,
  title  = {Weak gravity conjecture in the asymptotical dS and AdS background},
  author = {Qing-Guo Huang and Miao Li and Wei Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0603127},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages; version for publication in JHEP (title changed)