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Species Scale in Diverse Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-06-21 v2

Abstract

In a quantum theory of gravity, the species scale Λs\Lambda_s can be defined as the scale at which corrections to the Einstein action become important or alternatively as codifying the "number of light degrees of freedom", due to the fact that Λs1\Lambda_s^{-1} is the smallest size black hole described by the EFT involving only the Einstein term. In this paper, we check the validity of this picture in diverse dimensions and with different amounts of supersymmetry and verify the expected behavior of the species scale at the boundary of the moduli space. This also leads to the evaluation of the species scale in the interior of the moduli space as well as to the computation of the diameter of the moduli space. We also find evidence that the species scale satisfies the bound ΛsΛs21d2\big|{\nabla \Lambda_s \over \Lambda_s} \big|^2\leq {1\over d-2} all over moduli space including the interior.

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@article{arxiv.2310.07213,
  title  = {Species Scale in Diverse Dimensions},
  author = {Damian van de Heisteeg and Cumrun Vafa and Max Wiesner and David H. Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07213},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

60 pages, 12 figures; v2: references added, typos corrected, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:46:56.939Z