Weak gravity versus de Sitter
Niccolò Cribiori, Gianguido Dall’Agata, Fotis Farakos
Abstract
A bstract 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.
Topics & Concepts
De Sitter universeSupergravityPhysicsConjectureAnti-de Sitter spaceMathematical physicsDegenerate energy levelsde Sitter invariant special relativityDe Sitter spaceParticle physicsTheoretical physicsMathematicsSupersymmetryPure mathematicsUniverseQuantum mechanicsBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesNoncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories