5 papers
Pair Production and Gravity as the Weakest Force
Eduardo Gonzalo, Luis E. Ibáñez
The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is usually formulated in terms of the stability of extremal black-holes or in terms of long distance Coulomb/Newton potentials. However one can th…
A Strong Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture and Some Implications
Eduardo Gonzalo, Luis E. Ibáñez
We propose a new version of the scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) which would apply to any scalar field coupled to quantum gravity. For a single scalar it is given by the differ…
Modular Symmetries and the Swampland Conjectures
Eduardo Gonzalo, Luis E. Ibáñez, Ángel M. Uranga
Recent string theory tests of swampland ideas like the distance or the dS conjectures have been performed at weak coupling. Testing these ideas beyond the weak coupling regime rema…
The Fundamental Need for a SM Higgs and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Eduardo Gonzalo, Luis E. Ibáñez
Compactifying the SM down to 3D or 2D one may obtain AdS vacua depending on the neutrino mass spectrum. It has been recently shown that, by insisting in the absence of these vacua,…
AdS-phobia, the WGC, the Standard Model and Supersymmetry
Eduardo Gonzalo, Alvaro Herráez, Luis E. Ibáñez
It has been recently argued that an embedding of the SM into a consistent theory of quantum gravity may imply important constraints on the mass of the lightest neutrino and the cos…