{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:2014:7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ","short_pith_number":"pith:7KK22JBO","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"fa95ad242ea9a35fef55d6ce9d307fc40de6d19b865c7ba7d3b717b4236a41ca","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"1402.2287","version":2},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"Naturalness and the Weak Gravity Conjecture","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["gr-qc","hep-th"],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen","submitted_at":"2014-02-10T21:00:21Z","abstract_excerpt":"The weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is an ultraviolet consistency condition asserting that an Abelian force requires a state of charge $q$ and mass $m$ with $q>m/m_{\\rm Pl}$. We generalize the WGC to product gauge groups and study its tension with the naturalness principle for a charged scalar coupled to gravity. Reconciling naturalness with the WGC either requires a Higgs phase or a low cutoff at $\\Lambda \\sim q m_{\\rm Pl}$. If neither applies, one can construct simple models that forbid a natural electroweak scale and whose observation would rule out the naturalness principle."},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"1402.2287","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"metadata":{"license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2014-02-10T21:00:21Z","cross_cats_sorted":["gr-qc","hep-th"],"title_canon_sha256":"fe9d61542d58b67931db776f3d5dfecdeb772982d7be26d3dbe2ff6adc4be776","abstract_canon_sha256":"042e494a5250c505911686cfcd8959956bc2b68931d24c7b3ae704145f0aebc2"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.734028Z","signature_b64":"9XdUu8y2l2WZYljC5dS8eoAp9snD25Ad7wVZnLZpSpHSz5mMhjO5frByFTbMTiDRcJWM3DK8X1AyyWTVWnI7Cw==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"fa95ad242ea9a35fef55d6ce9d307fc40de6d19b865c7ba7d3b717b4236a41ca","last_reissued_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.733144Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.733144Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Naturalness and the Weak Gravity Conjecture","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["gr-qc","hep-th"],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen","submitted_at":"2014-02-10T21:00:21Z","abstract_excerpt":"The weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is an ultraviolet consistency condition asserting that an Abelian force requires a state of charge $q$ and mass $m$ with $q>m/m_{\\rm Pl}$. We generalize the WGC to product gauge groups and study its tension with the naturalness principle for a charged scalar coupled to gravity. Reconciling naturalness with the WGC either requires a Higgs phase or a low cutoff at $\\Lambda \\sim q m_{\\rm Pl}$. If neither applies, one can construct simple models that forbid a natural electroweak scale and whose observation would rule out the naturalness principle."},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1402.2287","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"1402.2287","created_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.733278+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"1402.2287v2","created_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.733278+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.1402.2287","created_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.733278+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"7KK22JBOVGRV","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:28:19.803747+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"7KK22JBOVGRV732V","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:28:19.803747+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"7KK22JBO","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:28:19.803747+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":3,"internal_anchor_count":1,"sample":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.22912","citing_title":"Sharpening the Supersymmetric Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture","ref_index":46,"is_internal_anchor":true},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.05336","citing_title":"Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound","ref_index":33,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.09141","citing_title":"Bounding axion dark energy","ref_index":69,"is_internal_anchor":false}]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ","json":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/7KK22JBO"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/7KK22JBO","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=1402.2287&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/7KK22JBOVGRV732V23HJ2MD7YQ/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.733278+00:00","updated_at":"2026-05-18T02:46:14.733278+00:00"}