The swampland distance conjecture and towers of tensionless branes

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2019)044zbMATH Open1421.81095arXiv1904.05379OpenAlexW3101613650WikidataQ122901982 ScholiaQ122901982MaRDI QIDQ2273403FDOQ2273403

Anamaría Font, Alvaro Herráez, Luis Ibáñez

Publication date: 23 September 2019

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

Abstract: The Swampland Distance Conjecture states that at infinite distance in the scalar moduli space an infinite tower of particles become exponentially massless. We study this issue in the context of 4d type IIA and type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications. We find that for large moduli not only towers of particles but also domain walls and strings become tensionless. We study in detail the case of type IIA and IIB $calN=1$ CY orientifolds and show how for infinite K"ahler and/or complex structure moduli towers of domain walls and strings become tensionless, depending on the particular direction in moduli space. For the type IIA case we construct the monodromy orbits of domain walls in detail. We study the structure of mass scales in these limits and find that these towers may occur at the same scale as the fundamental string scale or the KK scale making sometimes difficult an effective field theory description. The structure of IIA and IIB towers are consistent with mirror symmetry, as long as towers of exotic domain walls associated to non-geometric fluxes also appear. We briefly discuss the issue of emergence within this context and the possible implications for 4d vacua.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

D-branesflux compactificationssuperstring vacua

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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