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Black Hole Condensation and the Unification of String Vacua

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It is argued that black hole condensation can occur at conifold singularities in the moduli space of type II Calabi--Yau string vacua. The condensate signals a smooth transition to a new Calabi--Yau space with different Euler characteristic and Hodge numbers. In this manner string theory unifies the moduli spaces of many or possibly all Calabi--Yau vacua. Elementary string states and black holes are smoothly interchanged under the transitions, and therefore cannot be invariantly distinguished. Furthermore, the transitions establish the existence of mirror symmetry for many or possibly all Calabi--Yau manifolds.

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On BPS Branes

hep-th · 2026-06-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

The paper defines cones C_BPS-B and C_BPS-BB for BPS branes in supergravity and conjectures that states in C_BPS-BB are realized as BPS states with C_BPS-B as their electric-magnetic dual when moduli-independent.

A class of half-BPS boundary conditions for $A_{K-1}$ circular quivers

hep-th · 2026-06-02 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Characterizes solutions to BPS equations for D4-branes ending on boundary D6-branes in A_{K-1} circular quivers, finding a winding phenomenon absent in linear quivers and proposing the maximal-winding case as S-dual to Neumann boundary conditions.

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  • On BPS Branes hep-th · 2026-06-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 36 · internal anchor

    The paper defines cones C_BPS-B and C_BPS-BB for BPS branes in supergravity and conjectures that states in C_BPS-BB are realized as BPS states with C_BPS-B as their electric-magnetic dual when moduli-independent.

  • A class of half-BPS boundary conditions for $A_{K-1}$ circular quivers hep-th · 2026-06-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 28 · internal anchor

    Characterizes solutions to BPS equations for D4-branes ending on boundary D6-branes in A_{K-1} circular quivers, finding a winding phenomenon absent in linear quivers and proposing the maximal-winding case as S-dual to Neumann boundary conditions.

  • Bordisms between 9d type IIB supergravities and commutator widths of duality groups hep-th · 2026-05-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 50 · 2 links · internal anchor

    Proposes a refinement of the Swampland Cobordism Conjecture for duality groups, arguing that diverging commutator widths necessitate infinitely many duality defects to realize monodromies in 9d supergravity bordisms.

  • Morse-Bott inequalities, Topology Change and Cobordisms to Nothing hep-th · 2024-10-28 · unverdicted · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    Morse-Bott inequalities yield homology bounds and topology-change counts for generic cobordisms to nothing in string theory compactifications.