Lectures on the swampland program in string compactifications

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSREP.2022.09.002MaRDI QIDQ2092479zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marieke van Beest, Delaram Mirfendereski, Irene Valenzuela, José Calderón-Infante

Publication date 2 November 2022

Published in Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01111

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravitystring compactificationsstring phenomenologystring theoryswamplandweak gravity conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• Moduli inflation from modular flavor symmetries
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