Taxonomy of Infinite-Distance Limits

by Tom Rudelius

Monday 15 Jan 2024, 13:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

The emergent string conjecture places tight constraints on the possible behavior of light towers in infinite-distance limits in quantum gravity moduli spaces (as required by the distance conjecture). In this talk, I show how these constraints can be understood as a sort of geometric "classification" on vertices, edges, and facets of a polytope, and I discuss the scope of this classification, some evidence for it, and some applications of it. If time permits, I will further discuss some related work involving a mysterious pattern in infinite-distance limits of moduli space and its persistence into the interior of 5d moduli spaces.

Taxonomy of Infinite Distance Limits Hamburg.pdf