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hep-th2026

EFT (String) Tower Building

Alessandra Grieco, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela

We develop a bottom-up framework to reconstruct the asymptotic spectrum of light towers in four-dimensional effective field theories directly from their Kähler pot…

hep-th2026

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Tensionless String Limits in 4d SCFTs

José Calderón-Infante, Angel M. Uranga, Irene Valenzuela

The paper classifies infinite-distance weak‑coupling limits of large‑N 4d superconformal gauge theories using brane constructions, showing that three universality classes of emerge…

hep-th2026

EFT strings and dualities in 4d

Alessandra Grieco, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela

We investigate the global structure of the states becoming light at perturbative limits of 4d string and M-theory compactifications, identifying the different duali…

hep-th2026

Alice in Warpland: KK modes, Warped Compactifications and the Swampland

Salvatore Raucci, Ignacio Ruiz, Irene Valenzuela

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of Kaluza-Klein (KK) towers in warped compactifications to Minkowski space. Focusing on the overall decompactification limit, we derive the s…

hep-th2024

Tensionless String Limits in 4d Conformal Manifolds

José Calderón-Infante, Irene Valenzuela

Drawing on insights from the Swampland program, we initiate a classification of infinite distance limits in the conformal manifolds of 4d SCFTs. Each limit is characterized by a Ha…

hep-th2024

Taxonomy of Infinite Distance Limits

Muldrow Etheredge, Ben Heidenreich, Tom Rudelius +2

The Emergent String Conjecture constrains the possible types of light towers in infinite-distance limits in quantum gravity moduli spaces. In this paper, we use these constraints t…