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Report number	arXiv:2104.03325 ; CERN-TH-2021-051
Title	Swampland Conjectures and Infinite Flop Chains
Author(s)	Brodie, Callum R. (IPhT, Saclay) ; Constantin, Andrei (Oxford U., Theor. Phys. ; U. Oxford (main)) ; Lukas, Andre (Oxford U., Theor. Phys.) ; Ruehle, Fabian (CERN ; Oxford U., Theor. Phys.)
Publication	2021-08-04
Imprint	2021-04-07
Number of pages	9
Note	9 pages, 4 figures
In:	Phys. Rev. D 104 (2021) 046008
DOI	10.1103/PhysRevD.104.046008 (publication)
Subject category	hep-th ; Particle Physics - Theory
Abstract	We investigate swampland conjectures for quantum gravity in the context of M-theory compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds which admit infinite sequences of flops. Naively, the moduli space of such compactifications contains paths of arbitrary geodesic length traversing an arbitrarily large number of Kähler cones, along which the low-energy spectrum remains virtually unchanged. In cases where the infinite chain of Calabi-Yau manifolds involves only a finite number of isomorphism classes, the moduli space has an infinite discrete symmetry which relates the isomorphic manifolds connected by flops. This is a remnant of the 11D Poincare symmetry and consequently gauged, as it has to be by the no-global symmetry conjecture. The apparent contradiction with the swampland distance conjecture is hence resolved after dividing by this discrete symmetry. If the flop sequence involves infinitely many non-isomorphic manifolds, this resolution is no longer available. However, such a situation cannot occur if the Kawamata-Morrison conjecture for Calabi-Yau threefolds is true. Conversely, the swampland distance conjecture, when applied to infinite flop chains, implies the Kawamata-Morrison conjecture under a plausible assumption on the diameter of the Kähler cones.
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