347 citations · 3k across the 39 of their papers we have counts for
7 papers · 1 filter
Chern-Weil Global Symmetries and How Quantum Gravity Avoids Them
Ben Heidenreich, Jacob McNamara, Miguel Montero +3
We draw attention to a class of generalized global symmetries, which we call "Chern-Weil global symmetries," that arise ubiquitously in gauge theories. The Noether currents of thes…
The Convex Hull Swampland Distance Conjecture and Bounds on Non-geodesics
José Calderón-Infante, Angel M. Uranga, Irene Valenzuela
The Swampland Distance Conjecture (SDC) restricts the geodesic distances that scalars can traverse in effective field theories as they approach points at infinite distance in modul…
A CFT Distance Conjecture
Eric Perlmutter, Leonardo Rastelli, Cumrun Vafa +1
We formulate a series of conjectures relating the geometry of conformal manifolds to the spectrum of local operators in conformal field theories in spacetime dimensions. We f…
de Sitter Bubbles and the Swampland
Alek Bedroya, Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa +1
A number of Swampland conjectures and in particular the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC) suggest that de Sitter space is highly unstable if it exists at all. In this pap…
Swampland Conjectures for Strings and Membranes
Stefano Lanza, Fernando Marchesano, Luca Martucci +1
Swampland criteria like the Weak Gravity Conjecture should not only apply to particles, but also to other lower-codimension charged objects in 4d EFTs like strings and membranes. H…
Nothing is certain in string compactifications
Iñaki García Etxebarria, Miguel Montero, Kepa Sousa +1
A bubble of nothing is a spacetime instability where a compact dimension collapses. After nucleation, it expands at the speed of light, leaving "nothing" behind. We argue that the…
Merging the Weak Gravity and Distance Conjectures Using BPS Extremal Black Holes
Naomi Gendler, Irene Valenzuela
We analyze the charge-to-mass structure of BPS states in general infinite-distance limits of compactifications of Type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau three-folds,…