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Dark Energy, $H_0$ and Weak Gravity Conjecture

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-11-11 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We point out that the physics at the extreme IR---cosmology---might provide tests of the physics of the extreme UV---the Weak Gravity Conjecture. The current discrepancies in the determination of H0H_0 may hint at a modification of Λ\LambdaCDM. An extension which may fit better comprises of an early contribution to dark energy which `decays' into relativistic matter. On the other hand the discourse on WGC to date suggests that fields which support cosmic acceleration may produce relativistic matter after they traverse a \sim Planckian distance in field space. We explain how this offers a simple realization of the requisite cosmic phenomenology. Thus if the resolution of H0H_0 discrepancies is really early dark energy that ends with a shower of relativistic matter and the current ideas on WGC are indicative, this may be a rare opportunity to link the two extreme limits of quantum field theory.

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@article{arxiv.1903.11676,
  title  = {Dark Energy, $H_0$ and Weak Gravity Conjecture},
  author = {Nemanja Kaloper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.11676},
  year   = {2019}
}

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