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Heavy Tails in Calabi-Yau Moduli Spaces
Cody Long, Liam McAllister, Paul McGuirk
We study the statistics of the metric on Kähler moduli space in compactifications of string theory on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties. We find striking hierarchies in t…
Aligned Natural Inflation in String Theory
Cody Long, Liam McAllister, Paul McGuirk
We propose a scenario for realizing super-Planckian axion decay constants in Calabi-Yau orientifolds of type IIB string theory, leading to large-field inflation. Our construction i…
On Chiral Mesons in AdS/CFT
Liam McAllister, Paul McGuirk, John Stout
We analyze the spectra of non-chiral and chiral bifundamental mesons arising on intersecting D7-branes in . In the absence of magnetic flux on the curve of int…
Falling flavors in AdS/CFT
Paul McGuirk
We consider the behavior of D7 probes of supersymmetric warped geometries that are perturbed by the presence of anti-D3-branes. Such constructions are the gravitational duals of no…
Soft branes in supersymmetry-breaking backgrounds
Paul McGuirk, Gary Shiu, Fang Ye
We revisit the analysis of effective field theories resulting from non-supersymmetric perturbations to supersymmetric flux compactifications of the type-IIB superstring with an eye…
Hidden-sector current-current correlators in holographic gauge mediation
Paul McGuirk
We discuss gauge mediation in the case where the hidden sector is strongly coupled but, via the gauge-gravity correspondence, admits a weakly-coupled description in terms of a warp…