2020/11/30 by N. Cribiori, G. Dall'Agata, F. Farakos · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep04(2021)046
29 pages. v2: minor corrections and references added. Published on JHEP
arxiv created 2021/04/12 · arxiv updated 2021/04/21
We show that one can uncover a Dine-Seiberg problem for de Sitter critical points in supergravity theories by utilizing the magnetic weak gravity conjecture. We present a large variety of N=2 gauged supergravity models that include vector multiplets and in all cases we find that the weak gravity conjecture threatens de Sitter. A common feature in all such examples is a degenerate mass matrix for the gravitini, which we therefore deem a swampland criterion for de Sitter critical points.