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Rigid Limit in N=2 Supergravity and Weak-Gravity Conjecture
We analyze the coupled N=2 supergravity and Yang-Mills system using
holomorphy, near the rigid limit where the former decouples from the latter. We
find that there appears generically a new mass scale around g M_{pl} where g is
the gauge coupling constant and M_{pl} is the Planck scale. This is in accord
with the weak-gravity conjecture proposed recently. We also study the scale
dependence of the gauge theory prepotential from its embedding into
supergravity.Comment: 17 pages, minor correction
Spectrum of Background X-rays from Moduli Dark Matter
We examine the -ray spectrum from the decay of the dark-matter moduli with
mass keV, in particular, paying attention to the line
spectrum from the moduli trapped in the halo of our galaxy. It is found that
with the energy resolution of the current experiments (%) the line
intensity is about twice stronger than that of the continuum spectrum from the
moduli that spread in the whole universe. Therefore, in the future experiments
with higher energy resolutions it may be possible to detect such line photons.
We also investigate the -ray spectrum emitted from the decay of the
multi-GeV moduli. It is shown that the emitted photons may form MeV-bump in the
-ray spectrum. We also find that if the modulus mass is of the order of
10 GeV, the emitted photons at the peak of the continuum spectrum loses their
energy by the scattering and the shape of the spectrum is significantly
changed, which makes the constraint weaker than that obtained in the previous
works.Comment: 14 pages (RevTeX file) including four postscript figures, reviced
version to be published in Physical Review
Cosmological Moduli Problem in Gauge-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Theories
A generic class of string theories predicts the existence of light moduli
fields, and they are expected to have masses comparable to the
gravitino mass which is in a range of keV--1GeV in
gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking theories. Such light fields with weak
interactions suppressed by the Planck scale can not avoid some stringent
cosmological constraints, that is, they suffer from `cosmological moduli
problems'. We show that all the gravitino mass region keV 1GeV is excluded by the constraints even if we incorporate a
late-time mini-inflation (thermal inflation). However, a modification of the
original thermal inflation model enables the region keV 500keV to survive the constraints. It is also stressed that
the moduli can be dark matter in our universe for the mass region keV
100keV.Comment: A few changes in section IV and
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