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 theorystring phenomenologystring compactificationsweak gravity conjectureswampland

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) 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) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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• Running Love numbers and the effective field theory of gravity
• Metrics over multi-parameter AdS vacua
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• Swampland geometry and the gauge couplings
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• Geometric flow of bubbles
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• Bounds on tower mass scales in the presence of throats of different warping
• Towards AdS distances in string theory
• Elliptic \(K3\) surfaces at infinite complex structure and their refined Kulikov models
• Type IIB flux compactifications with \(h^{1, 1} = 0\)
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• Swampland conjectures for an almost topological gravity theory
• A positive metric over DGKT vacua
• Stringy evidence for a universal pattern at infinite distance
• Topology change and non-geometry at infinite distance
• EFT strings and emergence
• Gravity as a gapless phase and biform symmetries
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• Self-binding energies in AdS
• Light strings and strong coupling in F-theory
• Mass Hierarchies and Quantum Gravity Constraints in DKMM‐refined KKLT
• On asymptotic dark energy in string theory
• Taming the landscape of effective theories
• On (scalar QED) gravitational positivity bounds
• Black hole production, eternal inflation, and information in quasi-de Sitter space
• AdS swampland conjectures and light fermions
• Influences of perfect fluid dark matter on coinciding validity of the weak gravity and weak cosmic censorship conjectures for Kerr-Newman black hole
• Yukawa couplings at infinite distance and swampland towers in chiral theories
• A counterexample to the CFT convexity conjecture
• Non-invertible symmetries from discrete gauging and completeness of the spectrum
• Starobinsky inflation in the swampland
• Affine algebras at Infinite distance limits in the heterotic string
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• Towers and hierarchies in the standard model from emergence in quantum gravity
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• The emergence proposal and the emergent string

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