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A New Spin on the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Lars Aalsma, Alex Cole, Gregory J. Loges +1
The mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture states that quantum or higher-derivative corrections should decrease the mass of large extremal charged black holes at fixed charge. Th…
Searching the Landscape of Flux Vacua with Genetic Algorithms
Alex Cole, Andreas Schachner, Gary Shiu
In this paper, we employ genetic algorithms to explore the landscape of type IIB flux vacua. We show that genetic algorithms can efficiently scan the landscape for viable solutions…
Weak Gravity Conjecture, Black Hole Entropy, and Modular Invariance
Lars Aalsma, Alex Cole, Gary Shiu
In recent literature, it has been argued that a mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is satisfied by wide classes of effective field theories in which higher-derivative c…
Topological Data Analysis for the String Landscape
Alex Cole, Gary Shiu
Persistent homology computes the multiscale topology of a data set by using a sequence of discrete complexes. In this paper, we propose that persistent homology may be a useful too…
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…