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Massive gravitons on the Landscape and the AdS Distance Conjecture

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-20 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

This work regards IIB string theory embeddings of massive and bi-metric AdS4AdS_{4} gravity where the spectrum of the theory includes multiple massive gravitons. The corresponding geometry consists of multiple AdS4×wM6AdS_{4}\times_{w}\mathcal{M}_{6} spacetimes coupled by Janus throats of different radii. In the second part of this work, the AdS distance conjecture is studied in the above context and it is shown that the scale of the predicted infinite tower of light states is related to the breakdown scale of the effective field theory.

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@article{arxiv.2007.08913,
  title  = {Massive gravitons on the Landscape and the AdS Distance Conjecture},
  author = {Ioannis Lavdas and Dieter Lust},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08913},
  year   = {2020}
}