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The Swampland at Large Number of Space-Time Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-07-21 v2

Abstract

We discuss some aspects of swampland constraints - especially the swampland distance conjecture - in a large number of space-time dimensions DD. We analyze Kaluza-Klein (KK) states at large DD and find that some KK spectra possess an interesting dependence on DD. On the basis of these observations we propose a new large dimension conjecture. We apply it to KK states of compactifications to anti-de Sitter backgrounds where it predicts an upper bound on the dimension of space-time as a function of its characteristic radius. We also apply our conjecture to black hole spacetimes, whose entropies have a DD-dependence very similar to that of the KK spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2011.06610,
  title  = {The Swampland at Large Number of Space-Time Dimensions},
  author = {Quentin Bonnefoy and Luca Ciambelli and Dieter Lust and Severin Lust},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06610},
  year   = {2021}
}

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24 pages, version 2 contains minor changes and one more reference