Weak gravity versus de Sitter
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-04-21 v2
Abstract
We show that one can uncover a Dine-Seiberg problem for de Sitter critical points in supergravity theories by utilizing the magnetic weak gravity conjecture. We present a large variety of N=2 gauged supergravity models that include vector multiplets and in all cases we find that the weak gravity conjecture threatens de Sitter. A common feature in all such examples is a degenerate mass matrix for the gravitini, which we therefore deem a swampland criterion for de Sitter critical points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.06597,
title = {Weak gravity versus de Sitter},
author = {N. Cribiori and G. Dall'Agata and F. Farakos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06597},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
29 pages. v2: minor corrections and references added. Published on JHEP