6 papers
Integral Scaling for EFT Strings from the Bottom-Up
Muldrow Etheredge, Alvaro Herráez, Dieter Lüst +1
Near the core of an EFT string in a 4d theory, the scalars are dynamically driven to infinite field distance and a tower of states becomes light, with mass scaling…
Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String Conjecture
Christian Aoufia, Muldrow Etheredge, Bernardo Fraiman +2
At asymptotic limits of moduli spaces of quantum gravity vacua, we argue that the masses of the lightest particle towers are eigenfunctions of the moduli-space Laplacian. The assoc…
Moduli Space Quantum Mechanics
Luis Anchordoqui, Muldrow Etheredge, Dieter Lust
In this paper, continuing the discussion about Species Quantum Mechanics, we investigate quantum mechanics in moduli spaces using a mini-superspace approach. From this perspective,…
Sharpening the Supersymmetric Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture
Muldrow Etheredge, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius +1
The Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture provides one of the most effective quantum gravity tools for constraining particle physics and cosmology, but it has long been thought of as a sli…
Taxonomy of branes in infinite distance limits
Muldrow Etheredge
I consider flat slices of moduli spaces where the -vectors of particle-towers and branes are constant, and I show that the Emergent String Conjecture constrains t…
Confined monopoles and failure of the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture
Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich, Nicholas Pittman +3
Almost all known theories of quantum gravity satisfy the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture (LWGC), which posits that a consistent theory of quantum gravity must have a superextremal…