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 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 …

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 …

The swampland conjectures: a bridge from quantum gravity to particle physics

M Grana, A Herráez - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
The swampland is the set of seemingly consistent low-energy effective field theories that
cannot be consistently coupled to quantum gravity. In this review we cover some of the …

[HTML][HTML] A stringy test of the scalar weak gravity conjecture

SJ Lee, W Lerche, T Weigand - Nuclear Physics B, 2019 - Elsevier
We prove a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for 6d F-theory or heterotic string
compactifications with 8 supercharges. This sharpens our previous analysis by including …

Weak gravity conjecture from unitarity and causality

Y Hamada, T Noumi, G Shiu - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The weak gravity conjecture states that quantum gravity theories have to contain a charged
state with a charge-to-mass ratio bigger than unity. By studying unitarity and causality …

Merging the weak gravity and distance conjectures using BPS extremal black holes

N Gendler, I Valenzuela - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We analyze the charge-to-mass structure of BPS states in general infinite-distance
limits of\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 compactifications of Type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau three …

Aspects of the dark dimension in cosmology

LA Anchordoqui, I Antoniadis, D Lüst - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
It was recently understood that if the swampland conjectures are confronted to experiment
they naturally point to a solution of the cosmological hierarchy problem in which the …

A tower weak gravity conjecture from infrared consistency

S Andriolo, D Junghans, T Noumi… - Fortschritte der Physik, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze infrared consistency conditions of 3D and 4D effective field theories with
massive scalars or fermions charged under multiple U (1) gauge fields. At low energies, one …

Dark dimension and the standard model landscape

LA Anchordoqui, I Antoniadis, J Cunat - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We study the landscape of lower-dimensional vacua of the standard model (SM) coupled to
gravity in the presence of the so-called “dark dimension” of size R⊥ in the micron range …