The swampland: introduction and review

E Palti - Fortschritte der Physik, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Swampland program aims to distinguish effective theories which can be completed into
quantum gravity in the ultraviolet from those which cannot. This article forms an introduction …

Lectures on the swampland program in string compactifications

M van Beest, J Calderón-Infante, D Mirfendereski… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The Swampland program aims to determine the constraints that an effective field theory must
satisfy to be consistent with a UV embedding in a quantum gravity theory. Different …

The dark dimension and the Swampland

M Montero, C Vafa, I Valenzuela - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Motivated by principles from the Swampland program, which characterize
requirements for a consistent UV completion of quantum gravity, combined with …

Quantum extremal islands made easy. Part I. Entanglement on the brane

HZ Chen, RC Myers, D Neuenfeld, IA Reyes… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract Recent progress in our understanding of the black hole information paradox has
lead to a new prescription for calculating entanglement entropies, which involves special …

Beginners lectures on flux compactifications and related Swampland topics

T Van Riet, G Zoccarato - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
These lecture notes provide a pedagogical introduction, with exercises, to the techniques
used in attempts to construct vacua with stabilized moduli in string theory. The reader is only …

Infinite distances in field space and massless towers of states

TW Grimm, E Palti, I Valenzuela - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract It has been conjectured that in theories consistent with quantum gravity infinite
distances in field space coincide with an infinite tower of states becoming massless …

The emergence proposal in quantum gravity and the species scale

A Castellano, A Herráez, LE Ibáñez - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In the Emergence Proposal in Quantum Gravity it is conjectured that all light-
particle kinetic terms are absent in the fundamental ultraviolet theory and are generated by …

Memory burden effect in black holes and solitons: Implications for PBH

G Dvali, JS Valbuena-Bermúdez, M Zantedeschi - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The essence of the memory burden effect is that a load of information carried by a system
stabilizes it. This universal effect is especially prominent in systems with a high capacity of …

Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity

S Caron-Huot, YZ Li, J Parra-Martinez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study constraints from causality and unitarity on 2→ 2 graviton scattering in four-
dimensional weakly-coupled effective field theories. Together, causality and unitarity imply …

Sharpening the Distance Conjecture in diverse dimensions

M Etheredge, B Heidenreich, S Kaya, Y Qiu… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract The Distance Conjecture holds that any infinite-distance limit in the scalar field
moduli space of a consistent theory of quantum gravity must be accompanied by a tower of …