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hep-th2017★ 13 cited
Gravitational Decoupling and Picard-Lefschetz
Jon Brown, Alex Cole, William Cottrell +1
In this work, we consider tunneling between non-metastable states in gravitational theories. Such processes arise in various contexts, e.g., in inflationary scenarios where the inf…
hep-th2015★ 16 cited
Fencing in the Swampland: Quantum Gravity Constraints on Large Field Inflation
Jon Brown, William Cottrell, Gary Shiu +1
In this note we show that models of natural inflation based on closed string axions are incompatible with the weak gravity conjecture (WGC). Specifically, we use T-duality in order…