Swampland Bounds on the Abelian Gauge Sector

Abstract

We derive bounds on the number of abelian gauge group factors in six-dimensional gravitational theories with minimal supersymmetry and in their F-theoretic realisations. These bounds follow by requiring consistency of certain BPS strings in the spectrum of the theory, as recently proposed in the literature. Under certain assumptions this approach constrains the number of abelian gauge group factors in six-dimensional supergravity theories with at least one tensor multiplet to be $N\le 20$ (or $N\le 22$ in absence of charged matter). For any geometric F-theory realisation with at least one tensor multiplet we establish the bound $N\le 16$ by demanding unitarity of a heterotic solitonic string which exists even in absence of a perturbative heterotic dual. This result extends to four-dimensional F-theory vacua on any blowup of a rational fibration. Our findings lead to universal bounds on the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds.

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