Running decompactification, sliding towers, and the distance conjecture

M Etheredge, B Heidenreich, J McNamara… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study towers of light particles that appear in infinite-distance limits of moduli
spaces of 9-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 string theories, some of which notably feature …

Shedding black hole light on the emergent string conjecture

I Basile, D Lüst, C Montella - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Asymptotically massless towers of species are ubiquitous in the string landscape
when infinite-distance limits are approached. Due to the remarkable properties of string …

Density of states, black holes and the Emergent String Conjecture

A Bedroya, RK Mishra, M Wiesner - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025 - Springer
A bstract We study universal features of the density of one-particle states ρ (E) in weakly
coupled theories of gravity at energies above the quantum gravity cutoff Λ, defined as the …

arxiv: Running Decompactification, Sliding Towers, and the Distance Conjecture

M Etheredge, J McNamara, I Valenzuela, T Rudelius… - 2023 - cds.cern.ch
We study towers of light particles that appear in infinite-distance limits of moduli spaces of 9-
dimensional $\mathcal {N}= 1$ string theories, some of which notably feature …