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Taxonomy of Potentials in Asymptotic Limits
Muldrow Etheredge, Dieter Lüst, Tom Rudelius
In infinite-distance limits of scalar field moduli spaces in quantum gravity, particle masses, brane tensions, and scalar field potentials scale exponentially with geodesic distanc…
Integral Scaling for EFT Strings from the Bottom-Up
Muldrow Etheredge, Alvaro Herráez, Dieter Lüst +1
Near the core of an EFT string in a 4d theory, the scalars are dynamically driven to infinite field distance and a tower of states becomes light, with mass scaling…
Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String Conjecture
Christian Aoufia, Muldrow Etheredge, Bernardo Fraiman +2
At asymptotic limits of moduli spaces of quantum gravity vacua, we argue that the masses of the lightest particle towers are eigenfunctions of the moduli-space Laplacian. The assoc…
Sharpening the Supersymmetric Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture
Muldrow Etheredge, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius +1
The Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture provides one of the most effective quantum gravity tools for constraining particle physics and cosmology, but it has long been thought of as a sli…
Moduli Space Quantum Mechanics
Luis Anchordoqui, Muldrow Etheredge, Dieter Lust
In this paper, continuing the discussion about Species Quantum Mechanics, we investigate quantum mechanics in moduli spaces using a mini-superspace approach. From this perspective,…
Taxonomy of branes in infinite distance limits
Muldrow Etheredge
I consider flat slices of moduli spaces where the -vectors of particle-towers and branes are constant, and I show that the Emergent String Conjecture constrains t…
Confined monopoles and failure of the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich, Nicholas Pittman +3
Almost all known theories of quantum gravity satisfy the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture (LWGC), which posits that a consistent theory of quantum gravity must have a superextremal…
A Distance Conjecture for Branes
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich, Tom Rudelius
We use branes to generalize the Distance Conjecture. We conjecture that in any infinite-distance limit in the moduli space of a -dimensional quantum gravity theory, among the se…
Taxonomy of Infinite Distance Limits
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich, Tom Rudelius +2
The Emergent String Conjecture constrains the possible types of light towers in infinite-distance limits in quantum gravity moduli spaces. In this paper, we use these constraints t…
Geodesic Gradient Flows in Moduli Space
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich
Geodesics in moduli spaces of string vacua are important objects in string phenomenology. In this paper, we highlight a simple condition that connects brane tensions, including par…
Constrained Spin Systems and KNdS Black Holes
Vivek Chakrabhavi, Muldrow Etheredge, Yue Qiu +1
Kerr-Newman de Sitter (KNdS) spacetimes have a rich thermodynamic structure that involves multiple horizons, and so differs in key respects from asymptotically flat or AdS black ho…
Dense Geodesics, Tower Alignment, and the Sharpened Distance Conjecture
Muldrow Etheredge
The Sharpened Distance Conjecture and Tower Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture are closely related but distinct conjectures, neither one implying the other. Motivated by examples, I pr…
Running Decompactification, Sliding Towers, and the Distance Conjecture
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich, Jacob McNamara +3
We study towers of light particles that appear in infinite-distance limits of moduli spaces of 9-dimensional string theories, some of which notably feature decompac…
Derivative Corrections to Extremal Black Holes with Moduli
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich
We derive formulas for the leading mass, entropy, and long-range self-force corrections to extremal black holes due to higher-derivative operators. These formulas hold for black ho…
Sharpening the Distance Conjecture in Diverse Dimensions
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich, Sami Kaya +2
The Distance Conjecture holds that any infinite-distance limit in the scalar field moduli space of a consistent theory of quantum gravity must be accompanied by a tower of light pa…