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Axion Monodromy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Hebecker, Arthur, Rompineve, Fabrizio, Westphal, Alexander

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Axions with broken discrete shift symmetry (axion monodromy) have recently played a central role both in the discussion of inflation and the `relaxion' approach to the hierarchy problem.

We suggest a very minimalist way to constrain such models by the weak gravity conjecture for domain walls: While the electric side of the conjecture is always satisfied if the cosine-oscillations of the axion potential are sufficiently small, the magnetic side imposes a cutoff, $\Lambda^3 \sim m f M_{pl}$, independent of the height of these `wiggles'.
We compare our approach with the recent related proposal by Ibanez, Montero, Uranga and Valenzuela.
We also discuss the non-trivial question which version, if any, of the weak gravity conjecture for domain walls should hold.

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S. R. Coleman and F. De Luccia, “Gravitational Effects on and of Vacuum Decay,” Phys. Rev. D
1980
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. Coleman,
1985
Earlier work this paper cites.
J. D. Brown and C. Teitelboim, “Dynamical Neutralization of the Cosmological Constant,” Phys. Lett. B
1987
Earlier work this paper cites.
J. D. Brown and C. Teitelboim, “Neutralization of the Cosmological Constant by Membrane Creation,” Nucl. Phys. B
1988
Earlier work this paper cites.
N. Kaloper and L. Sorbo, “A Natural Framework for Chaotic Inflation,” Phys. Rev. Lett
Original
1989
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. R. Liddle, A. Mazumdar and F. E. Schunck, Phys. Rev. D
1998
Earlier work this paper cites.
J. Polchinski,
1998
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R. Bousso and J. Polchinski, “Quantization of four form fluxes and dynamical neutralization of the cosmological constant,” JHEP
2000
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. B. Giddings, S. Kachru and J. Polchinski, Phys. Rev. D
2002
Earlier work this paper cites.
T. Banks, M. Dine, P. J. Fox and E. Gorbatov, “On the possibility of large axion decay constants,” JCAP
2003
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J. E. Kim, H. P. Nilles and M. Peloso, “Completing natural inflation,” JCAP
2005
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D. Baumann, A. Dymarsky, I. R. Klebanov, J. M. Maldacena, L. P. McAllister and A. Murugan, “On D3-brane Potentials in Compactifications with Fluxes and Wrapped D-branes,” JHEP
2006
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N. Arkani-Hamed, L. Motl, A. Nicolis and C. Vafa, “The String landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force,” JHEP
2007
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S. Dimopoulos, S. Kachru, J. McGreevy and J. G. Wacker, “N-flation,” JCAP
2008
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E. Silverstein and A. Westphal, “Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity Waves and String Inflation,” Phys. Rev. D
Original
2008
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X. Chen, R. Easther and E. A. Lim, “Generation and Characterization of Large Non-Gaussianities in Single Field Inflation,” JCAP
Original
2008
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R. Flauger, L. McAllister, E. Pajer, A. Westphal and G. Xu, “Oscillations in the CMB from Axion Monodromy Inflation,” JCAP
Original
2010
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