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Swampland Constraints on the SymTFT of Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-05 v1

Abstract

We consider string/M-theory reductions on a compact space X=XlocXX=X^\text{loc} \cup X^\circ, where XlocX^\text{loc} contains the singular locus, and XX^\circ its complement. For the resulting supergravity theories, we construct a suitable Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) associated with the boundary XlocX\partial X^\text{loc} \coprod \partial X^\circ. We propose that boundary conditions for different BPS branes wrapping the same boundary cycles must be correlated for the SymTFT to yield an absolute theory consistent with quantum gravity. Using heterotic/M-theory duality, this constraint can be translated into a field theoretic statement, which restricts the global structure of d7d\geq 7, N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supergravity theories to reproduce precisely the landscape of untwisted toroidal heterotic compactifications. Furthermore, for 6d (2,0)(2,0) theories, we utilize a subtle interplay between gauged 0-, 2-, and 4-form symmetries to provide a bottom-up explanation of the correlated boundary conditions in K3 compactifications of type IIB.

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@article{arxiv.2312.02131,
  title  = {Swampland Constraints on the SymTFT of Supergravity},
  author = {Dewi S. W. Gould and Ling Lin and Evyatar Sabag},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02131},
  year   = {2023}
}

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55 pages, 4 figures