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EFT (String) Tower Building
Alessandra Grieco, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela
We develop a bottom-up framework to reconstruct the asymptotic spectrum of light towers in four-dimensional effective field theories directly from their Kähler pote…
Bordisms between 9d type IIB supergravities and commutator widths of duality groups
Camilo las Heras, Ignacio Ruiz
We study the topological properties of bordisms interpolating between different 9d gauged supergravities obtained from compactification of type IIB string theory on …
A missing link: Brane networks and the Cobordism Conjecture
Markus Dierigl, Ignacio Ruiz
The absence of global symmetries in a quantum gravity theory often requires the introduction of (new) symmetry-breaking defects, which appear as singular objects in the low-energy…
The dark dimension, proton decay, and the length of the M-theory interval
Mario Reig, Ignacio Ruiz
The existence of a large extra dimension in which only gravity propagates would have spectacular consequences for cosmology and laboratory experiments. In the strong coupling limit…
EFT strings and dualities in 4d
Alessandra Grieco, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela
We investigate the global structure of the states becoming light at perturbative limits of 4d string and M-theory compactifications, identifying the different duali…
Morse-Bott inequalities, Topology Change and Cobordisms to Nothing
Ignacio Ruiz
The Cobordism Conjecture predicts spacetime-ending configurations, such as Bubbles of Nothing (BoN), being commonplace. These correspond to vacuum decays in which the compactificat…
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…
Stringy Evidence for a Universal Pattern at Infinite Distance
Alberto Castellano, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela
Infinite distance limits in the moduli space of a quantum gravity theory are characterized by having infinite towers of states becoming light, as dictated by the Distance Conjectur…
A Universal Pattern in Quantum Gravity at Infinite Distance
Alberto Castellano, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela
Quantum gravitational effects become significant at a cut-off species scale that can be much lower than the Planck scale whenever we get a parametrically large number of fields bec…
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…
Asymptotic Accelerated Expansion in String Theory and the Swampland
José Calderón-Infante, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela
We study whether the universal runaway behaviour of stringy scalar potentials towards infinite field distance limits can produce an accelerated expanding cosmology à la quintessenc…