CosmoClub April 23

Today, Jan Pieter, Adri and I will give a summary of the many papers about the weak gravity conjecture and inflation that have been posted on the ArXiv recently. Furthermore, please put any interesting papers you would like to discuss as a comment to this post.

Cheers,
- Lars

1 comment:

  1. If you want to read up on the subject of the WGC and inflation you look at the following papers.

    Original WGC paper:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0601001 (Arkani-Hamed, Motl, Nicolis, Vafa)

    WGC and axions:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00795 (Rudelius)
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03886 (Montero, Uranga, Valenzuela)
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04783 (Brown, Cottrell, Shiu, Soler)

    Counter argument to (mostly) 1503.04783:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07853 (Bachlechner, Long, McAllister)

    Counter-counter argument to 1503.07853 and clarifications:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00659 (Brown, Cottrell, Shiu, Soler)

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