{"record":{"author":{"account_ref":null,"orcid":null},"builds_on":[],"content_schema":"pubphys.content.revision/1","content_sha256":"0d6eae0f8ce5a61928a5686dd2e39dd6975fd4c6dc8df0f8a17d7aed37945555","created":"2026-10-15T23:43:22Z","files":[],"origin":{"assisted_by":[],"kind":"seed"},"parents":["c0f8afbdf72527f2370417e164c325c8a04f8ddcb394ddb1d747d3395b6275b4","ce59fb6cd812fc05906d0c60a71c75ea22bc686bcf38e7c3ef7010834d98ee7b"],"salt":"c6623c97de026d3673fa91a35a1ba8a8ace9c7d97df4fd76c308d625545feaa0","schema":"pubphys.record/2","site":"pubphys.com","target":null,"type":"revision"},"content":{"answer_type":"yes-no","assisted_by":[],"external_id":"qft.swampland.weak-gravity","kind":"well-posed","literature_status":"partially-resolved","n":"2","parents":[],"plain":"The conjecture says gravity must be the weakest force: some particle must feel electric repulsion stronger than its gravitational attraction. Whether this is a law of all quantum gravity theories is unproven.","posed_since":"2006","precise":"Weak gravity conjecture (Arkani-Hamed, Motl, Nicolis, Vafa 2006): every U(1) gauge theory coupled to gravity has a state with charge-to-mass ratio at least that of extremal black holes. Determine whether this holds in every consistent quantum gravity theory, and whether the sublattice or tower versions hold.","problem_ref":"c0f8afbdf72527f2370417e164c325c8a04f8ddcb394ddb1d747d3395b6275b4","references":"","settled_by":"A derivation from general principles (black hole thermodynamics, unitarity, holography), or a consistent theory violating it.","status_note":"Shown in perturbative string settings and supported by black-hole arguments; the strongest lattice version fails in some compactifications (2016), leaving sublattice and tower versions.","title":"Does the weak gravity conjecture hold in all quantum gravity theories?","topic_ref":null},"attested":{"attestation":{"batch":null,"client_id":null,"id_token_sha256":null,"kind":"platform"},"record_hash":"8f3a6eae929e296f88df3ad315740c6ffe79c886364a4fd70d518c74a891f082","schema":"pubphys.attested/1"},"envelope":{"attested_hash":"ca613c22b70a669031d2586d3408be662c97b38f68ae3ab6dddd46af4823cd19","platform_signature":{"key_id":"c6afc19b31429869751f06879c75cd64ea92654423d15b44be775bf1310a60da","sig":"_s4rcHcyuyV_xYDygWB_Y-VHs0sP5kJ34SyNAFEnklRRMX3gZ1fOM-E5NEOxLWfVx0EurHzEdmj5kwr3ub8YDA"},"schema":"pubphys.envelope/1"},"record_hash":"8f3a6eae929e296f88df3ad315740c6ffe79c886364a4fd70d518c74a891f082","leaf_index":3692}