David H. Wu

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20202026

most citedModuli-dependent Species Scale

54 citations · 73 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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hep-th2024

String stars in $d \geq 7$

Alek Bedroya, David Wu

We raise a thermodynamic puzzle for Horowitz--Polchinski (HP) solutions in the presence of extra compact dimensions and show that it can be resolved by the existence of higher-dime…

hep-th2024★ 7 cited

The Tale of Three Scales: the Planck, the Species, and the Black Hole Scales

Alek Bedroya, Cumrun Vafa, David H. Wu

Quantum gravity (QG) has a natural cutoff given by the Planck scale $M_{pl}$ . However, it is known that the EFT of gravity can break down at a lower scale, the species scale $Λ…

String stars in d≥7

The Tale of Three Scales: the Planck, the Species, and the Black Hole Scales

String stars in $d \geq 7$