The swampland distance conjecture and towers of tensionless branes

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2019)044zbMath1421.81095arXiv1904.05379OpenAlexW3101613650WikidataQ122901982 ScholiaQ122901982MaRDI QIDQ2273403

Alvaro Herráez, Luis E. Ibáñez, Anamaría Font

Publication date: 23 September 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05379

zbMATH Keywords

D-branessuperstring vacuaflux compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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