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Moduli Space Reconstruction and Weak Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-29 v2

Abstract

We present a method to construct the extended K\"ahler cone of any Calabi-Yau threefold by using Gopakumar-Vafa invariants to identify all geometric phases that are related by flops or Weyl reflections. In this way we obtain the K\"ahler moduli spaces of all favorable Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces with h1,14h^{1,1} \le 4, including toric and non-toric phases. In this setting we perform an explicit test of the Weak Gravity Conjecture by using the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants to count BPS states. All of our examples satisfy the tower/sublattice WGC, and in fact they even satisfy the stronger lattice WGC.

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@article{arxiv.2212.10573,
  title  = {Moduli Space Reconstruction and Weak Gravity},
  author = {Naomi Gendler and Ben Heidenreich and Liam McAllister and Jakob Moritz and Tom Rudelius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10573},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

29 pages + appendices, 8 illustrations; v2: matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T07:45:30.606Z