Publication Date
2020
Journal or Book Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Abstract
We develop methods for resummation of instanton lattice series. Using these tools, we investigate the consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for large-field axion inflation. We find that the Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture implies a constraint on the volume of the axion fundamental domain. However, we also identify conditions under which alignment and clockwork constructions, and a new variant of N -flation that we devise, can evade this constraint. We conclude that some classes of low-energy effective theories of large-field axion inflation are consistent with the strongest proposed form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, while others are not.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)166
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Recommended Citation
Heidenreich, Ben; Long, Cody; McAllister, Liam; Rudelius, Tom; and Stout, John, "Instanton resummation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture" (2020). Journal of High Energy Physics. 1261.
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)166