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Moduli-dependent Species Scale
Damian van de Heisteeg, Cumrun Vafa, Max Wiesner +1
The counting of the number of light modes in a gravitational theory is captured by the notion of the `species scale', which serves as an effective UV cutoff below the Planck scale.…
The Asymptotic Weak Gravity Conjecture in M-theory
Cesar Fierro Cota, Alessandro Mininno, Timo Weigand +1
The tower Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts infinitely many super-extremal states along every ray in the charge lattice of a consistent quantum gravity theory. We show this far-reac…
Light Strings and Strong Coupling in F-theory
Max Wiesner
We consider 4d N=1 theories arising from F-theory compactifications on elliptically-fibered Calabi-Yau four-folds and investigate the non-perturbative structure of their scalar fie…
The Tadpole Conjecture in the Interior of Moduli Space
Severin Lüst, Max Wiesner
We revisit moduli stabilization on Calabi-Yau manifolds with a discrete symmetry. Invariant fluxes allow for a truncation to a symmetric locus in complex structure moduli space and…
The Asymptotic Weak Gravity Conjecture for Open Strings
Cesar Fierro Cota, Alessandro Mininno, Timo Weigand +1
We investigate the asymptotic Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture in weak coupling limits of open string theories with minimal supersymmetry in four dimensions, focusing for definiteness…
Holography and the KKLT Scenario
Severin Lüst, Cumrun Vafa, Max Wiesner +1
The KKLT scenario, one of the few ideas to realize dS vacua in string theory, consists of two steps: the first involves the construction of a supersymmetric AdS vacuum with a small…