2022
11/02
OPEN
Date
2022/11/02 11:00 -12:00
Venue
Online (Zoom)
Speaker
Dr. Miguel Montero (Harvard University)
Language
English
URL
Contact
Sota NAKAJIMA／snakajim-AT-post.kek.jp
Overview
Topological couplings play a prominent role in our understanding of field theories, but their role in string compactifications is much less understood. I explore an example in compactifications of type IIB string theory with sixteen supercharges, showing that they lead to previously unknown components of moduli space in nine, eight, and seven dimensions. I also explain why a similar construction fails to produce a new string theory in ten dimensions. The new components of moduli space thus constructed feature an incomplete lattice of BPS strings, which has implications for a number of Swampland constraints.