Speaker
Dr
Thomas Grimm
(Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Description
It has been conjectured that in theories consistent with quantum
gravity infinite distances in field space coincide with an infinite tower of states
becoming massless exponentially fast. In this talk I present non-trivial evidence
for this conjecture from the study of Type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds.
I will also comment on the observation that the behavior of the metric and gauge
coupling function near infinite distance points can be recovered by integrating out the BPS states.
This suggests that theses properties might be emergent.
