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Four Dimensional SYM and the Swampland
Hee-Cheol Kim, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa
We consider supergravity theories with 16 supercharges in Minkowski space with dimensions . We argue that there is an upper bound on the number of massless modes in such theor…
Cobordism Classes and the Swampland
Jacob McNamara, Cumrun Vafa
We argue that any proposed quantum theory of gravity with non-trivial cobordism classes in the space of configurations belongs to the Swampland. The argument is based on the assump…
Twisted Circle Compactifications of 6d SCFTs
Lakshya Bhardwaj, Patrick Jefferson, Hee-Cheol Kim +2
We study 6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) compactified on a circle with arbitrary twists. The theories obtained after compactification, often referred to as 5d Kaluza-Klein…
Trans-Planckian Censorship and Inflationary Cosmology
Alek Bedroya, Robert Brandenberger, Marilena Loverde +1
We study the implications of the recently proposed Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC) for early universe cosmology and in particular inflationary cosmology. The TCC leads…
Trans-Planckian Censorship and the Swampland
Alek Bedroya, Cumrun Vafa
In this paper, we propose a new Swampland condition, the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC), based on the idea that in a consistent quantum theory of gravity sub-Planckian…
AdS and the Swampland
Dieter Lust, Eran Palti, Cumrun Vafa
We study aspects of anti-de Sitter space in the context of the Swampland. In particular, we conjecture that the near-flat limit of pure AdS belongs to the Swampland, as it is neces…