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20192026
most citedNew Non-Supersymmetric Tachyon-Free Strings

2 citations · 3 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

hep-th2026

IR Black Hole Instabilities Trigger Species-Scale Particle Production

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Alek Bedroya, Dieter Lüst +1

We propose a novel UV-IR mechanism in quantum gravity in which black hole instabilities act as a bridge to the most ultraviolet sector of the theory. Specifically, we argue that wh…

hep-th2025

String islands, discrete theta angles and the 6D string landscape

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Héctor Parra De Freitas, Houri-Christina Tarazi

The complete classification of the landscape of 6D string vacua remains an open problem. In this work we prove a classification theorem for 6D $\mathcal{N} =…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

New Non-Supersymmetric Tachyon-Free Strings

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa

In four decades of string theory research, only a handful of non-supersymmetric tachyon-free strings with only one neutral scalar at tree level were found. We construct new such no…

hep-th2024

The Quasicrystalline String Landscape

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa

In this work we investigate a largely unexplored non-geometric corner of the string landscape: the quasicrystalline orbifolds. These exist at special points of the Narain moduli le…

hep-th2023

On the String Landscape Without Hypermultiplets

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Yuta Hamada, Houri-Christina Tarazi +1

In this work we study interesting corners of the quantum gravity landscape with 8 supercharges pushing the boundaries of our current understanding. Calabi-Yau threefolds compactifi…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

Non-BPS path to the string lamppost

Alek Bedroya, Sanjay Raman, Houri-Christina Tarazi

We provide further motivation for the string lamppost principle in 9d supergravities. Using a blend of ideas which includes Swampland conjectures, finiteness of black hole entropy,…