# Repulsive forces and the weak gravity conjecture

@article{Heidenreich2019RepulsiveFA,
title={Repulsive forces and the weak gravity conjecture},
author={B. J. Heidenreich and Matthew Reece and Tom Rudelius},
journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
year={2019}
}
• Published 5 June 2019
• Physics
• Journal of High Energy Physics
Abstract The Weak Gravity Conjecture is a nontrivial conjecture about quantum gravity that makes sharp, falsifiable predictions which can be checked in a broad range of string theory examples. However, in the presence of massless scalar fields (moduli), there are (at least) two inequivalent forms of the conjecture, one based on charge-to-mass ratios and the other based on long-range forces. We discuss the precise formulations of these two conjectures and the evidence for them, as well as the…

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