7 papers
Quantum Gravity Cutoff from Axions: A Type IIB Landscape Study
Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius, Christopher Tudball
Extra-dimensional axions have coupling strength related to fundamental, ultraviolet physics. It has been proposed that the properties of such axions imply a bound on the quantum gr…
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…
Nonabelian Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture and Monopole Confinement
Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius
Within the known landscape of quantum gravity, most theories satisfy the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture (LWGC), which requires a superextremal particle at every site in the electr…
On the Field Excursion Bound
Tom Rudelius
In a recent work, Herderschee and Wall (HW) proved a bound on scalar field excursions in spatially flat FRW cosmologies. In this note, we give an alternate proof of their bound usi…
Co-Scaling and Alignment of Electric and Magnetic Towers
Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius, Christopher Tudball
Towers of electrically and magnetically charged states in quantum gravity often exhibit two important properties. First, the ratio of the mass (or tension) of electrically charged…
Top Down Approach to 6D SCFTs
Jonathan J. Heckman, Tom Rudelius
Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs) occupy a central place in the study of quantum field theories encountered in high energy theory. This article reviews the t…