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The weak gravity conjecture has been invoked to conjecture that the dimensions of charged operators in a CFT should obey a superadditivity relation (sometimes referred to as convexity). In this paper, we study superadditivity of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Timothy Cohen , Ipak Fadakar , Andrew Gomes , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Rattazzi

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) was proposed to constrain Effective Field Theories (EFTs) with Abelian gauge symmetry coupled to gravity. In this article, I study the WGC from low energy observers' perspective, and revisit the issue of to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Kazuyuki Furuuchi

By generalizing different recent works to the context of higher curvature gravity, we provide a unifying framework for three related results: (i) If an asymptotically AdS spacetime computes the entanglement entropies of ball-shaped regions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau

The AdS/CFT correspondence relates deformations of the CFT by "multi-trace operators" to "non-local string theories". The deformed theories seem to have non-local interactions in the compact directions of space-time; in the gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ofer Aharony , Micha Berkooz , Boaz Katz

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is a proposed constraint on theories with gauge fields and gravity, requiring the existence of light charged particles and/or imposing an upper bound on the field theory cutoff $\Lambda$. If taken as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Prashant Saraswat

Motivated by the weak gravity conjecture, arXiv:2108.04594 conjectured that in any CFT, the minimal operator dimension at fixed charge is a convex function of the charge. In this letter we construct a counterexample to this convexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Adar Sharon , Masataka Watanabe

The Weak Gravity Conjecture holds that in a theory of quantum gravity, any gauge force must mediate interactions stronger than gravity for some particles. This statement has surprisingly deep and extensive connections to many different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-14 Daniel Harlow , Ben Heidenreich , Matthew Reece , Tom Rudelius

We argue that a large class of asymptotically AdS geometries with a semiclassical baby universe cannot be realized within the AdS/CFT correspondence. This in particular resolves a recent puzzle introduced by Antonini and Rath, in which a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-22 Netta Engelhardt , Elliott Gesteau

The authors of arXiv:1610.01533 have recently proposed a stronger version of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC), based on which they concluded that all those non-supersymmetric AdS vacua that can be embedded within a constistent theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Ulf Danielsson , Giuseppe Dibitetto

Weak gravity conjecture can be formulated as a statement that gravity must be the weakest force, compared to the other interactions in low energy effective field theory (EFT). Several arguments in favor of this statement were presented from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Anna Tokareva , Yongjun Xu

We point out that it is possible to define CFT duals to AdS theories with massive gravitons only. This is achieved by considering the product of two or more CFTs on the boundary, each possessing a large-N expansion and a corresponding bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-30 Luis Apolo , Massimo Porrati

We investigate the AdS/CFT interpretation of the class of algebraically special solutions of Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant. Such solutions describe a CFT living in a 2+1 dimensional time-dependent geometry that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-03 Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas , Harvey S. Reall

The locality of bulk physics at distances below the AdS length is one of the remarkable aspects of AdS/CFT duality, and one of the least tested. It requires that the AdS radius be large compared to the Planck length and the string length.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Idse Heemskerk , Joao Penedones , Joseph Polchinski , James Sully

We show that the recently proposed weak gravity conjecture\cite{AMNV0601} can be extended to a class of scalar field theories. Taking gravity into account, we find an upper bound on the gravity interaction strength, expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Miao Li , Wei Song , Yushu Song , Tower Wang

The study of AdS/CFT (or gauge/gravity) duality has been one of the most active and illuminating areas of research in string theory over the past decade. The scope of its relevance and the insights it is providing seem to be ever expanding.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-16 John H. Schwarz

We consider AdS/CFT correspondence for time-dependent \II B backgrounds in this paper. The supergravity solutions we construct are supersymmetric pp-waves on AdS and may have null singularity in the bulk. The dual gauge theory is also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Chong-Sun Chu , Pei-Ming Ho

In the presence of large extra dimensions, the fundamental Planck scale can be much lower than the apparent four-dimensional Planck scale. In this setup, the weak gravity conjecture implies a much more stringent constraint on the UV cutoff…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Guo Huang

In this work, we investigate the extension of our recent proposal for the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in AdS space to more general effective field theories. We first extend the conjecture to set-ups where moduli are present and we demand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Puxin Lin , Alessandro Mininno , Gary Shiu

Via the AdS/CFT correspondence, fundamental constraints on the entanglement structure of quantum systems translate to constraints on spacetime geometries that must be satisfied in any consistent theory of quantum gravity. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Nima Lashkari , Charles Rabideau , Philippe Sabella-Garnier , Mark Van Raamsdonk

Infrared modifications of gravity have been proposed over the years as potentially useful phenomenological models. Massive (multi)-gravity is an interesting class of such theories. The true nature and the ultimate consistency of many of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-03 Vasilis Niarchos