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Researcher Evidence Record

Irene Valenzuela

This bounded record lists 52 Pith paper rows and 0 imported work rows attributed to this corpus identity. The enumerated, non-disputed paper rows include hep-th, hep-ph work dated 2012 to 2026. The record describes sources and coverage; it makes no judgment about the person.

Compiled coverage vector

Measured lane counts only. Not a trust score or person verdict.

Enumerated paper scope: 2 fields (hep-th, hep-ph) · 2012-2026 sources: authors, author_identifiers · paper_authors · author_works · current_verdicts · cited_works

A sourced case file for attributed work. It is neither a profile score nor a verdict about this researcher.

Attributed works

A bounded ledger from the Pith paper and imported-work queries. Counts and source confidence stay with each work.

  1. 2026 Pith paper

    EFT (String) Tower Building

    hep-th provisional current review present

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: a current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  2. 2026 Pith paper

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to Tensionless String Limits in 4d SCFTs

    hep-th provisional current review present

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: a current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  3. 2026 Pith paper

    Alice in Warpland: KK modes, Warped Compactifications and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional current review present

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    backfill
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: a current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  4. 2025 Pith paper

    Backtracking AdS flux vacua

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 4 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  5. 2025 Pith paper

    EFT strings and dualities in 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 10 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  6. 2024 Pith paper

    Quantum corrections to DGKT and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  7. 2024 Pith paper

    Tensionless String Limits in 4d Conformal Manifolds

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  8. 2024 Pith paper

    On Measuring Distances in the Quantum Gravity Landscape

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  9. 2024 Pith paper

    Taxonomy of Infinite Distance Limits

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    5
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 10 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  10. 2024 Pith paper

    On the Fate of Stringy Non-Invertible Symmetries

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    6
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 13 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  11. 2023 Pith paper

    Stringy Evidence for a Universal Pattern at Infinite Distance

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 8 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  12. 2023 Pith paper

    A Universal Pattern in Quantum Gravity at Infinite Distance

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 8 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  13. 2023 Pith paper

    Running Decompactification, Sliding Towers, and the Distance Conjecture

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    6
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 7 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  14. 2022 Pith paper

    Asymptotic Accelerated Expansion in String Theory and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 4 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  15. 2022 Pith paper

    The Dark Dimension and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 14 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  16. 2022 Pith paper

    Large Field Distances from EFT strings

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  17. 2021 Pith paper

    The Desert and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  18. 2021 Pith paper

    Finiteness and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 6 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  19. 2021 Pith paper

    Non-Invertible Global Symmetries and Completeness of the Spectrum

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    6
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 20 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  20. 2021 Pith paper

    AdS Swampland Conjectures and Light Fermions

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  21. 2021 Pith paper

    The EFT stringy viewpoint on large distances

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 11 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  22. 2021 Pith paper

    Lectures on the Swampland Program in String Compactifications

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 25 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  23. 2020 Pith paper

    The Convex Hull Swampland Distance Conjecture and Bounds on Non-geodesics

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 8 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  24. 2020 Pith paper

    Chern-Weil Global Symmetries and How Quantum Gravity Avoids Them

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    6
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 8 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  25. 2020 Pith paper

    A CFT Distance Conjecture

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  26. 2020 Pith paper

    de Sitter Bubbles and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  27. 2020 Pith paper

    Swampland Conjectures for Strings and Membranes

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 8 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  28. 2020 Pith paper

    Nothing is certain in string compactifications

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 8 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  29. 2020 Pith paper

    Merging the Weak Gravity and Distance Conjectures Using BPS Extremal Black Holes

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  30. 2019 Pith paper

    Asymptotic Flux Compactifications and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 7 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  31. 2018 Pith paper

    Swampland Distance Conjecture, Inflation and $\alpha$-attractors

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 6 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  32. 2018 Pith paper

    The Swampland Distance Conjecture for Kahler moduli

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 9 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  33. 2018 Pith paper

    Infinite Distances in Field Space and Massless Towers of States

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 20 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  34. 2017 Pith paper

    Backreaction in Axion Monodromy, 4-forms and the Swampland

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  35. 2017 Pith paper

    Constraining the EW Hierarchy from the Weak Gravity Conjecture

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  36. 2017 Pith paper

    Constraining Neutrino Masses, the Cosmological Constant and BSM Physics from the Weak Gravity Conjecture

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  37. 2017 Pith paper

    The Swampland Conjecture and F-term Axion Monodromy Inflation

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  38. 2017 Pith paper

    A Chern-Simons Pandemic

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 48 external cited by from pith
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  39. 2016 Pith paper

    Higgs-otic Inflation and Moduli Stabilization

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  40. 2016 Pith paper

    Backreaction Issues in Axion Monodromy and Minkowski 4-forms

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  41. 2016 Pith paper

    The DBI Action, Higher-derivative Supergravity, and Flattening Inflaton Potentials

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  42. 2015 Pith paper

    Relaxion Monodromy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  43. 2015 Pith paper

    Minkowski 3-forms, Flux String Vacua, Axion Stability and Naturalness

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  44. 2015 Pith paper

    Transplanckian axions !?

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  45. 2014 Pith paper

    Special Points of Inflation in Flux Compactifications

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  46. 2014 Pith paper

    Higgs-otic Inflation and String Theory

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  47. 2014 Pith paper

    The Inflaton as a MSSM Higgs and Open String Modulus Monodromy Inflation

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  48. 2014 Pith paper

    Flux-induced Soft Terms on Type IIB/F-theory Matter Curves and Hypercharge Dependent Scalar Masses

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  49. 2014 Pith paper

    BICEP2, the Higgs Mass and the SUSY-breaking Scale

    hep-ph provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  50. 2013 Pith paper

    The String Origin of SUSY Flavor Violation

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  51. 2013 Pith paper

    The Higgs Mass as a Signature of Heavy SUSY

    hep-ph provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  52. 2012 Pith paper

    The Intermediate Scale MSSM, the Higgs Mass and F-theory Unification

    hep-ph provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Irene Valenzuela
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.

Evidence apparatus

The machinery behind this record. Every lane states whether Pith measured it, did not query it, could not reach it, or withheld it.

LaneStateObservedBoundary and source
identity Measured 2 Canonical identity row plus public typed identifiers.
source=authors, author_identifiers
papers Measured 52 of 52 bounded rows Rows attributed to this author UUID in the Pith corpus.
source=paper_authors
works Measured zero 0 of 0 bounded rows Imported works not duplicated by the paper ledger.
source=author_works
reviews Measured 3 of 52 bounded rows Coverage count only. No review outcome is projected onto the person.
source=current_verdicts
citations Measured 36 of 52 bounded rows Counts remain itemized by work and source.
source=cited_works
coauthors Measured 48 of 52 bounded rows Shared-work edges from admitted paper rows.
source=paper_authors
account Unavailable No public count of 1 bounded rows Account metadata is separate from corpus evidence.
source=users.author_id
Public identity sources
  • name variant
    Irene Valenzuela
    backfill
    confidence 0.6
Enumerated research scope

Fields and dates come only from enumerated, non-disputed Pith paper rows. They do not claim career completeness.

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  • 20121 rows
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Shared-work index
Record scope

The work queries are bounded. Missing rows may mean measured zero, an unavailable source, a query that did not run, or private data that Pith withheld. The lane table keeps those cases separate.

Paper findings remain attached to papers. They do not become findings about this researcher.