Research topic
Apparently consistent EFTs conjectured not to admit a consistent quantum-gravity completion.
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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.
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Strings, Geometry, and the Swampland
The Landscape and the SwamplandDistinguish the string landscape from apparently consistent EFTs conjectured to lack quantum-gravity completion.
Supports: Swampland
arXiv preprint (no journal version listed) · 2005
C. Vafa
Why this matters: Frames quantum-gravity completion as a constraint beyond ordinary EFT consistency; the criteria are conjectural.
Nucl. Phys. B 766:21–33 · 2007
H. Ooguri, C. Vafa
Why this matters: Motivates the Distance Conjecture and light towers at infinite distance; illustrative limits do not prove its universal scope.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.10.033