High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String Conjecture
Alex Stewart,
UC Irvine,
At asymptotic limits of moduli spaces of quantum gravity vacua, we
argue that the masses of the lightest particle towers are
eigenfunctions of the moduli-space Laplacian. The associated
eigenvalues are quantized by the Emergent String Conjecture and
determine the exponential decay rates of axionic directions in these
limits. We also connect the quantization of Laplacian eigenvalues to
the spectrum of instantons for the theory. Based on 2607.20603.
The talk is in 469 Lauritsen.
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