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Backreaction in Axion Monodromy, 4-forms and the Swampland
Irene Valenzuela
Axion monodromy models can always be described in terms of an axion coupled to 3-form gauge fields with non-canonical kinetic terms. The presence of the saxions parametrising the k…
Constraining the EW Hierarchy from the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Luis E. Ibanez, Victor Martin-Lozano, Irene Valenzuela
In this addendum we complement the remarks made in ref[1] constraining the value of the cosmological constant in terms of neutrino masses. Those were based on a sharpened ver…
Constraining Neutrino Masses, the Cosmological Constant and BSM Physics from the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Luis E. Ibanez, Victor Martin-Lozano, Irene Valenzuela
It is known that there are AdS vacua obtained from compactifying the SM to 2 or 3 dimensions. The existence of such vacua depends on the value of neutrino masses through the Casimi…
The Swampland Conjecture and F-term Axion Monodromy Inflation
Ralph Blumenhagen, Irene Valenzuela, Florian Wolf
We continue the investigation of F-term axion monodromy inflation in string theory, while seriously taking the issue of moduli stabilization into account. For a number of closed an…
A Chern-Simons Pandemic
Miguel Montero, Angel M. Uranga, Irene Valenzuela
In this paper we study the consistency of generalized global symmetries in theories of quantum gravity, in particular string theory. Such global symmetries arise in theories with $…