Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2021)252
Keywords
F-Theory; String Duality; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
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Funding
- Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigacion) through the grant IFT Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa [SEV-2016-0597]
- MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE [PGC2018-095976-B-C21]
- \la CaixaFoundation [100010434, LCF/BQ/DI18/11660033]
- European Union [713673]
- IBS [IBS-R018-D1]
- Ministry of Science & ICT (MSIT), Republic of Korea [IBS-R018-D1-2021-A00] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The study investigates quantum corrections in N = 1 supersymmetric theories, confirming the validity of the Emergent String Conjecture and exploring the effect of Weak Gravity Conjecture quantum corrections beyond the strict weak coupling limit. The research demonstrates how gauge threshold corrections and mass renormalisation effects modify super-extremality bounds and predict the renormalisation of mass towers for the Weak Gravity Conjecture to hold quantum mechanically.
We study quantum corrections in four-dimensional theories with N = 1 supersymmetry in the context of Quantum Gravity Conjectures. According to the Emergent String Conjecture, infinite distance limits in quantum gravity either lead to decompactification of the theory or result in a weakly coupled string theory. We verify this conjecture in the framework of N = 1 supersymmetric F-theory compactifications to four dimensions including perturbative alpha as well as non-perturbative corrections. After proving uniqueness of the emergent critical string at the classical level, we show that quantum corrections obstruct precisely those limits in which the scale of the emergent critical string would lie parametrically below the Kaluza-Klein scale. Limits in which the tension of the asymptotically tensionless string sits at the Kaluza-Klein scale, by contrast, are not obstructed. In the second part of the paper we study the effect of quantum corrections for the Weak Gravity Conjecture away from the strict weak coupling limit. We propose that gauge threshold corrections and mass renormalisation effects modify the super-extremality bound in four dimensions. For the infinite distance limits in F-theory the classical super-extremality bound is generically satisfied by a sublattice of states in the tower of excitations of an emergent heterotic string. By matching the F-theory alpha ' -corrections to gauge threshold corrections of the dual heterotic theory we predict how the masses of this tower must be renormalised in order for the Weak Gravity Conjecture to hold at the quantum level.
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