Dynamical Cobordism Conjecture: Solutions for End-of-the-World Branes
Abstract
We analyze finite size solutions for a generalized -dimensional Dudas-Mourad (DM) model featuring dynamical cobordism with neutral and charged end-of-the-world (ETW) defect branes. Confirming a dynamical version of the Cobordism Conjecture, we explicitly construct non-isotropic solutions for the latter codimension one branes and show the appearance of a lower bound for the critical exponent in the scaling behavior of the distance and the curvature close to the wall. This allows us to make a connection to the (sharpened) Swampland Distance Conjecture and the (Anti-) de Sitter Distance Conjecture. Moreover, BPS orientifold planes appear as special cases in our analysis and the whole picture is consistent with dimensional reduction from ten to dimensions. An analogous analysis is performed for a generalized Blumenhagen-Font (BF) model featuring neutral codimension two ETW-branes where the same lower bound for the scaling parameter arises.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.03423,
title = {Dynamical Cobordism Conjecture: Solutions for End-of-the-World Branes},
author = {Ralph Blumenhagen and Christian Kneissl and Chuying Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03423},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
41 pages, 2 figures, v2: corrected eqs.(2.18),(2.31), added comment below eq.(3.8)