Speaker
Antonia Paraskevopoulou
(MPI)
Description
In this talk, I will present recent progress in the Swampland Program, which I will briefly introduce, focusing primarily on one of its less established conjectures, usually referred to as the Emergence Proposal. This postulates that the low energy effective action of a quantum gravity theory may be obtained by integrating out light towers of states appearing in various asymptotic regions of the moduli space. I will motivate why the Emergence Proposal seems to be naturally realized in the (not yet completely understood) decompactification limit to M-theory by reviewing recent calculations of higher derivative couplings and independent arguments.
