Research topic
Special states and indices permitting protected calculations in controlled supersymmetric regimes.
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Research using string theory, geometry, duality, black-hole physics and quantum-gravity consistency to understand which effective theories can arise from quantum gravity and what those constraints might imply for particle physics and cosmology.
7 lessons · ~37 minutes
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Strings, Geometry, and the Swampland
The theorist’s toolkit: duality, supersymmetry, and protected quantitiesExplain how equivalent dual descriptions can make a strongly coupled problem calculable.
Supports: BPS states
Strings, Geometry, and the Swampland
Black holes, topological strings, and exact quantum gravity cluesExplain why controlled black-hole microstate counts test a quantum-gravity framework.
Supports: BPS states
Phys. Lett. B 379:99–104 · 1996
A. Strominger, C. Vafa
Why this matters: Matches a controlled BPS microstate count to gravitational entropy; this is theoretical evidence in a restricted setting.
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0