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Infinite Distances and Factorization
John Stout
The information metric provides a unique notion of distance along any continuous family of physical theories, placing two theories further apart the more distinguishable they are.…
Infinite Distance Limits and Information Theory
John Stout
The classical information metric provides a unique notion of distance on the space of probability distributions with a well-defined operational interpretation: two distributions ar…
Instanton Expansions and Phase Transitions
John Stout
A central object in any axionic theory is its periodic potential, which is typically generated by instantons. The goal of this paper is to understand what physically happens to the…
Instanton Resummation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Ben Heidenreich, Cody Long, Liam McAllister +2
We develop methods for resummation of instanton lattice series. Using these tools, we investigate the consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for large-field axion inflation. W…
Real-Time Corrections to the Effective Potential
Guilherme L. Pimentel, John Stout
Non-perturbatively generated effective potentials play an extremely useful and often critical role in string and inflationary model building. These potentials are typically compute…
Runaway Relaxion Monodromy
Liam McAllister, Pedro Schwaller, Geraldine Servant +2
We examine the relaxion mechanism in string theory. An essential feature is that an axion winds over fundamental periods. In string theory realizations via axion monodrom…