Positivity of Amplitudes, Weak Gravity Conjecture, and Modified Gravity
- Bellazzini, Brando
- Lewandowski, Matthew
- Serra, Javi
Publication date
January 2019
DOI Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)Abstract
International audienceWe derive new positivity bounds for scattering amplitudes in theories with a massless graviton in the spectrum in four spacetime dimensions, of relevance for the weak gravity conjecture and modified gravity theories. The bounds imply that extremal black holes are self-repulsive, M/|Q|<1 in suitable units, and that they are unstable to decay to smaller extremal black holes, providing an S-matrix proof of the weak gravity conjecture. We also present other applications of our bounds to the effective field theory of weakly broken Galileons, axions, and P(X) theories
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