Large N field theories, string theory and gravity

O Aharony, SS Gubser, J Maldacena, H Ooguri, Y Oz - Physics Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
We review the holographic correspondence between field theories and string/M theory,
focusing on the relation between compactifications of string/M theory on Anti-de Sitter …

Flux compactification

MR Douglas, S Kachru - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2007 - APS
Recent work is reviewed in which compactifications of string and M theory are constructed in
which all scalar fields (moduli) are massive, and supersymmetry is broken with a small …

Lectures on the string landscape and the Swampland

NB Agmon, A Bedroya, MJ Kang, C Vafa - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.06187, 2022 - arxiv.org
We provide an overview of the string landscape and the Swampland program. Our review of
the string landscape covers the worldsheet and spacetime perspectives, including vacua …

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 …

De Sitter space and the swampland

G Obied, H Ooguri, L Spodyneiko, C Vafa - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
It has been notoriously difficult to construct a meta-stable de Sitter (dS) vacuum in string
theory in a controlled approximation. This suggests the possibility that meta-stable dS …

Minimal black holes and species thermodynamics

I Basile, N Cribiori, D Lüst, C Montella - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract The species scale provides a lower bound on the shortest possible length that can
be probed in gravitational effective theories. It may be defined by the size of the minimal …

The landscape, the swampland and the era of precision cosmology

Y Akrami, R Kallosh, A Linde… - Fortschritte der …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We review the advanced version of the KKLT construction and pure de Sitter supergravity,
involving a nilpotent multiplet, with regard to various conjectures that de Sitter state cannot …

A Goldstone theorem for continuous non-invertible symmetries

IG Etxebarria, N Iqbal - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study systems with an Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in terms of non-invertible
symmetry. We present a new kind of non-invertible charge defect where a key role is played …

Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry in string theory

VA Kostelecký, S Samuel - Physical Review D, 1989 - APS
Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry in string theory Page 1 PHYSICAL REVIEW D
VOLUME 39,NUMBER 2 15 JANUARY 1989 Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry in …

[PDF][PDF] Strings on orbifolds

L Dixon, JA Harvey, C Vafa, E Witten - Nuclear Physics B, 1985 - scholar.archive.org
The most thoroughly understood example of superstring compactification is compactification
on a fiat torus [1]. This example is exactly soluble and obeys all of the equations of string …