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Massless Black Holes and Conifolds in String Theory

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Low-energy effective field theories arising from Calabi-Yau string compactifications are generically inconsistent or ill-defined at the classical level because of conifold singularities in the moduli space. It is shown, given a plausible assumption on the degeneracies of black hole states, that for type II theories this inconsistency can be cured by nonperturbative quantum effects: the singularities are resolved by the appearance of massless Ramond-Ramond black holes. The Wilsonian effective action including these light black holes is smooth near the conifold, and the singularity is reproduced when they are integrated out. In order for a quantum effect to cure a classical inconsistency, it can not be suppressed by the usual string coupling $g_s$. It is shown how the required $g_s$ dependence arises as a result of the peculiar couplings of Ramond-Ramond gauge fields to the dilaton.

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

hep-th · 2026-03-11 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

In codimension-one warped compactifications with exponential potentials, the KK mass decay rate λ_KK is reduced by warping but still satisfies the Sharpened Distance Conjecture precisely when the higher-dimensional potential obeys the Strong de Sitter condition.

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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