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Arkani-Hamed, Motl, Nicolis and Vafa proposed that gravity is the weakest force in a consistent quantum-gravity theory with a U(1) gauge field. Their weaker electric conjecture requires a suitable charged state whose mass-to-charge ratio is no greater than that of an extremal black hole, with equality in supersymmetric examples. They examined black-hole stability, heterotic compactifications and other string-theory examples, and discussed a magnetic argument for a gauge-dependent effective-theory cutoff. These are conjectural consistency conditions and supporting theoretical evidence, not an observed particle or a general proof.
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The paper distinguishes the weaker existence claim from a stronger claim about the lightest charged particle and explicitly rejects a minimal-charge version using a heterotic counterexample. A state satisfying the weaker claim can have large charge and mass. The magnetic cutoff estimate requires additional assumptions about a monopole and its effective field theory; it is not derived from the weaker electric claim alone. The discussion of p-form fields, several U(1)s and higher-derivative corrections is conditional and does not establish a general classification or experimental verification.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed; Luboš Motl; Alberto Nicolis; Cumrun Vafa
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Weak gravity conjecture and evidence from charged black holes and string theory
Arkani-Hamed, Motl, Nicolis and Vafa proposed that gravity is the weakest force in a consistent quantum-gravity theory with a U(1) gauge field. Their weaker electric conjecture requires a suitable charged state whose mass-to-charge ratio is no greater than that of an extremal black hole, with equality in supersymmetric examples. They examined black-hole stability, heterotic compactifications and other string-theory examples, and discussed a magnetic argument for a gauge-dependent effective-theory cutoff. These are conjectural consistency conditions and supporting theoretical evidence, not an observed particle or a general proof.
Scientific scope
The paper distinguishes the weaker existence claim from a stronger claim about the lightest charged particle and explicitly rejects a minimal-charge version using a heterotic counterexample. A state satisfying the weaker claim can have large charge and mass. The magnetic cutoff estimate requires additional assumptions about a monopole and its effective field theory; it is not derived from the weaker electric claim alone. The discussion of p-form fields, several U(1)s and higher-derivative corrections is conditional and does not establish a general classification or experimental verification.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed; Luboš Motl; Alberto Nicolis; Cumrun Vafa
These are the listed authors of the cited contribution sources. Paper authorship does not quantify individual effort. An incomplete list is explicitly marked; same names are not automatically merged.