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SUMMARY:Strengthening the Weak Gravity Conjecture
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Ben Heidenreich\, Harvard\n\nPart of the HET Seminar 
	Series.\n\nThe Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) posits that subextremal charge
	d black holes can decay to charged particles\, implying a mild constraint o
	n the spectrum of a quantum gravity theory that has interesting phenomenolo
	gical consequences. I examine the consistency of the WGC under toroidal com
	pactification\, showing that the WGC can be violated in the dimensionally r
	educed theory even when it holds in the higher dimensional theory. I propos
	e a strengthening of the conjecture inspired by Kaluza-Klein theory which i
	s consistent under compactification\, and show that this strong form is sat
	isfied in many explicit string theory examples. I comment on possible conne
	ctions to the spectrum of charged operators in a CFT\, both in two dimensio
	ns and in higher dimensions.
LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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