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Stress-Testing Swampland Bounds with Class S Theories
Gabriel Fenati, Miguel Montero, Irene Valenzuela
We test the Sharpened Distance Conjecture (SharpDC) for CFTs, as well as the Refined Distance Conjecture (RDC), in AdS gravitational spacetimes, using the CFT dual. The former…
Neutrinos, B-L Symmetry and the Dark Dimension
Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa, Irene Valenzuela
We consider realizations of a gauged B-L symmetry in the context of the Dark Dimension scenario, where the SM lives on a codimension one brane in 5d spacetime. The B-L can naturall…
Backtracking AdS flux vacua
Fien Apers, Miguel Montero, Irene Valenzuela
We introduce an algorithm (dubbed "flux backtracking") to reverse-engineer the brane picture from an AdS flux vacuum. Given an AdS flux vacuum as input, the algorithm outputs a sin…
Quantum corrections to DGKT and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Miguel Montero, Irene Valenzuela
We study D4 brane domain walls in the scale-separated 4d =1 AdS DGKT scenario. Classically, these are BPS and satisfy a no-force condition since their tension equa…
On Measuring Distances in the Quantum Gravity Landscape
Amineh Mohseni, Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa +1
In this note, we propose a generalized notion of distance between vacua in the theory of a scalar field with scalar potential coupled to gravity. We propose the normaliz…
On the Fate of Stringy Non-Invertible Symmetries
Jonathan J. Heckman, Jacob McNamara, Miguel Montero +3
Non-invertible symmetries in quantum field theory (QFT) generalize the familiar product rule of groups to a more general fusion rule. In many cases, gauged versions of these symmet…