<p>The Emergent String Conjecture constrains the possible types of light towers in infinite-distance limits in quantum gravity moduli spaces. In this paper, we use these constraints to restrict the geometry of the scalar charge-to-mass vectors (<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <InlineMediaObject> <ImageObject Color="BlackWhite" FileRef="13130_2025_25869_Article_IEq1.gif" Format="GIF" Height="25" Rendition="HTML" Resolution="72" Type="Linedraw" Width="35" /> </InlineMediaObject> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <mo>−</mo> <mover accent="true"> <mo>∇</mo> <mo stretchy="true">→</mo> </mover> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( -\overrightarrow{\nabla} \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> log <i>m</i>) of the light towers and the analogous vector (<InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <InlineMediaObject> <ImageObject Color="BlackWhite" FileRef="13130_2025_25869_Article_IEq2.gif" Format="GIF" Height="25" Rendition="HTML" Resolution="72" Type="Linedraw" Width="35" /> </InlineMediaObject> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <mo>−</mo> <mover accent="true"> <mo>∇</mo> <mo stretchy="true">→</mo> </mover> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( -\overrightarrow{\nabla} \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> log Λ<sub>QG</sub>) of the species scale. We derive taxonomic rules that these vectors must satisfy in each duality frame. Under certain assumptions, this allows us to classify the ways in which different duality frames can fit together globally in the moduli space in terms of a finite list of polytopes. Many of these polytopes arise in known string theory compactifications, while others suggest either undiscovered corners of the landscape or new swampland constraints.</p>

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Taxonomy of infinite distance limits

  • Muldrow Etheredge,
  • Ben Heidenreich,
  • Tom Rudelius,
  • Ignacio Ruiz,
  • Irene Valenzuela

摘要

The Emergent String Conjecture constrains the possible types of light towers in infinite-distance limits in quantum gravity moduli spaces. In this paper, we use these constraints to restrict the geometry of the scalar charge-to-mass vectors ( \( -\overrightarrow{\nabla} \) log m) of the light towers and the analogous vector ( \( -\overrightarrow{\nabla} \) log ΛQG) of the species scale. We derive taxonomic rules that these vectors must satisfy in each duality frame. Under certain assumptions, this allows us to classify the ways in which different duality frames can fit together globally in the moduli space in terms of a finite list of polytopes. Many of these polytopes arise in known string theory compactifications, while others suggest either undiscovered corners of the landscape or new swampland constraints.