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most citedSpecies scale, worldsheet CFTs and emergent geometry

24 citations · 43 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

hep-ph2026

TeV-scale leptogenesis in a parity symmetric neutrino mass model

Keisuke Harigaya, Gio Leone

We study leptogenesis via out-of-equilibrium decays of right-handed neutrinos in a parity symmetric extension of the Standard Model with gauge group $SU(3)_c \times SU(2)_L \times…

hep-th2026

UV/IR relations from the worldsheet

Christian Aoufia, Ivano Basile, Giorgio Leone +1

We derive universal scaling relations for the low-energy effective action of string theory, connecting the vacuum energy and gauge couplings to higher-derivative Wilson coefficient…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Non-supersymmetric strings on AdS: a world-sheet perspective

Giorgio Leone

We explore the quantisation of the tachyonic type 0B superstring and the non-tachyonic heterotic string on AdS$_3 \tim…

hep-th2025★ 6 cited

Aspects of strings without spacetime supersymmetry

Giorgio Leone, Salvatore Raucci

String theory relies on spacetime supersymmetry to guarantee the existence of stable vacua. In this review, we survey two features of non-supersymmetric strings that challenge both…

hep-th2024

New comments on six-dimensional orientifold vacua with reduced rank and unitarity constraints

Giorgio Leone

We revisit and extend the construction of six-dimensional orientifolds built upon the orbifolds with a non-vanishing Kalb-Ramond background, both in the presence…

hep-th2024

Aspects of Stability, Rigidity and Unitarity in String Vacua

Giorgio Leone

In this Thesis we investigate properties of stability, rigidity and unitarity of the string landscape in ten and lower dimensions. The dissertation explores these aspects by intert…

hep-th2024

Non-supersymmetric non-tachyonic heterotic vacua with reduced rank in various dimensions

Carlo Angelantonj, Ioannis Florakis, Giorgio Leone +1

We construct rigid non-supersymmetric heterotic vacua with reduced rank and no tachyons in six and four dimensions. These configurations are based on asymmetric orbifold compactifi…

hep-th2024★ 24 cited

Species scale, worldsheet CFTs and emergent geometry

Christian Aoufia, Ivano Basile, Giorgio Leone

We study infinite-distance limits in the moduli space of perturbative string vacua. The remarkable interplay of string dualities seems to determine a highly non-trivial dichotomy,…

hep-th2024

Rigid Vacua with Brane Supersymmetry Breaking

C. Angelantonj, C. Condeescu, E. Dudas +1

We construct new string vacua featuring Brane Supersymmetry Breaking, based on orientifolds with planes and branes. Differen…

hep-th2023

Tachyons and Misaligned Supersymmetry in Orientifold Vacua

Giorgio Leone

We extend the analysis of Misaligned Supersymmetry to orientifold vacua. The lack of modular invariance in the Klein bottle, annulus and Möbius strip amplitudes implies that the IR…

hep-th2023★ 2 cited

Anomaly constraints for heterotic strings and supergravity in six dimensions

Ivano Basile, Giorgio Leone

The landscape of six-dimensional supergravities is dramatically constrained by the cancellation of gauge and gravitational anomalies, but the full extent of its implications has no…

hep-th2023★ 10 cited

Tachyons and Misaligned Supersymmetry in Closed String Vacua

Carlo Angelantonj, Ioannis Florakis, Giorgio Leone

In a remarkable paper, Dienes discovered that the absence of physical tachyons in closed string theory is intimately related to oscillations in the net number of bosonic minus ferm…