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 …

Bounds on field range for slowly varying positive potentials

D van de Heisteeg, C Vafa, M Wiesner… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract In the context of quantum gravitational systems, we place bounds on regions in
field space with slowly varying positive potentials. Using the fact that\(V<{\Lambda} _s^ 2\) …

A CFT distance conjecture

E Perlmutter, L Rastelli, C Vafa, I Valenzuela - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We formulate a series of conjectures relating the geometry of conformal manifolds
to the spectrum of local operators in conformal field theories in d> 2 spacetime dimensions …

The price of curiosity: information recovery in de Sitter space

L Aalsma, W Sybesma - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Recent works have revealed that quantum extremal islands can contribute to the
fine-grained entropy of black hole radiation reproducing the unitary Page curve. In this …

On asymptotic dark energy in string theory

S Cremonini, E Gonzalo, M Rajaguru, Y Tang… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We examine bounds on accelerated expansion in asymptotic regions of the moduli
space in string theory compactifications to four spacetime dimensions. While there are …

The convex hull swampland distance conjecture and bounds on non-geodesics

J Calderón-Infante, AM Uranga… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract The Swampland Distance Conjecture (SDC) restricts the geodesic distances that
scalars can traverse in effective field theories as they approach points at infinite distance in …

Tackling the SDC in AdS with CFTs

F Baume, JC Infante - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study the Swampland Distance Conjecture for supersymmetric theories with
AdS 5 backgrounds and fixed radius through their\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 SCFT holographic …

Momentum-space entanglement entropy in de Sitter spacetime

S Brahma, J Calderón-Figueroa, M Hassan, X Mi - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the momentum-space entanglement between the sub-and super-Hubble modes of
a spectator scalar field, with a cubic λ ϕ 3 interaction, in de Sitter space. Momentum-space …

Shocks and information exchange in de Sitter space

L Aalsma, A Cole, E Morvan, JP van der Schaar… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We discuss some implications of recent progress in understanding the black hole
information paradox for complementarity in de Sitter space. Extending recent work by two of …

Tachyonic de Sitter solutions of 10d type II supergravities

D Andriot - Fortschritte der Physik, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cosmological models of the early or late universe exhibit (quasi) de Sitter space‐times with
different stability properties. Considering models derived from string theory, the swampland …