8 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…
Inflationary Particle Production and the Swampland
Dieter Lüst, Joaquin Masias, Mauro Pieroni +1
We investigate the impact of particle production during inflation in scenarios where an infinite tower of states features a mass scale that decreases exponentially along the inflat…
Quantum Calabi-Yau Black Holes and Non-Perturbative D0-brane Effects
Alberto Castellano, Dieter Lüst, Carmine Montella +1
We compute the supersymmetric entropy of the most general BPS black hole in 4d supergravity coupled to vector multiplets obtained from Type IIA string theory…
Aspects of non-minimally coupled curvature with power laws
Anamaria Hell, Dieter Lust
We consider a class of theories containing power-law terms in both the Ricci scalar and a scalar field, including their non-minimal couplings. As a first step, we systematically cl…
Conformal and pure scale-invariant gravities in d dimensions
Anamaria Hell, Dieter Lust
We consider conformal and scale-invariant gravities in d dimensions, with a special focus on pure gravity in the scale-invariant case. In four dimensions, the structure of th…
On the Origin of Species Thermodynamics and the Black Hole - Tower Correspondence
Alvaro Herráez, Dieter Lüst, Joaquin Masias +1
Species thermodynamics has been proposed in analogy to black hole thermodynamics. The entropy scales like an area and is given by the mere counting of the number of the species. In…