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F-theory and the Classification of Little Strings
Lakshya Bhardwaj, Michele Del Zotto, Jonathan J. Heckman +3
Little string theories (LSTs) are UV complete non-local 6D theories decoupled from gravity in which there is an intrinsic string scale. In this paper we present a systematic approa…
Sharpening the Weak Gravity Conjecture with Dimensional Reduction
Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius
We investigate the behavior of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) under toroidal compactification and RG flows, finding evidence that WGC bounds for single photons become weaker in…
Evidence for C-theorems in 6D SCFTs
Jonathan J. Heckman, Tom Rudelius
Using the recently established classification of 6D SCFTs we present evidence for the existence of families of weak C-functions, that is, quantities which decrease in a flow from t…
Weak Gravity Strongly Constrains Large-Field Axion Inflation
Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius
Models of large-field inflation based on axion-like fields with shift symmetries can be simple and natural, and make a promising prediction of detectable primordial gravitational w…
Geometry of 6D RG Flows
Jonathan J. Heckman, David R. Morrison, Tom Rudelius +1
We study renormalization group flows between six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) using their geometric realizations as singular limits of F-theory compactified on…
On the Defect Group of a 6D SCFT
Michele Del Zotto, Jonathan J. Heckman, Daniel S. Park +1
We use the F-theory realization of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to study the corresponding spectrum of stringlike, i.e. surface defects. On the tensor branch, all of th…