Dr Tom Rudelius' Outputs (7)

Taxonomy of infinite distance limits (2025)
Journal Article
Etheredge, M., Heidenreich, B., Rudelius, T., Ruiz, I., & Valenzuela, I. (2025). Taxonomy of infinite distance limits. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(3), Article 213. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282025%29213

The Emergent String Conjecture constrains the possible types of light towers in infinite-distance limits in quantum gravity moduli spaces. In this paper, we use these constraints to restrict the geometry of the scalar charge-to-mass vectors (−∇→ log... Read More about Taxonomy of infinite distance limits.

A symmetry-centric perspective on the geometry of the string landscape and the swampland (2024)
Journal Article
Rudelius, T. (2024). A symmetry-centric perspective on the geometry of the string landscape and the swampland. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 33(15), Article 2441003. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271824410037

As famously observed by Ooguri and Vafa nearly 20 years ago, scalar field moduli spaces in quantum gravity appear to exhibit various universal features. For instance, they seem to be infinite in diameter, have trivial fundamental group, and feature t... Read More about A symmetry-centric perspective on the geometry of the string landscape and the swampland.

Persistence of the pattern in the interior of 5d moduli spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rudelius, T. (2024). Persistence of the pattern in the interior of 5d moduli spaces. Physics Letters B, 853, Article 138640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138640

Castellano, Ruiz, and Valenzuela recently observed a remarkable “pattern” in infinite-distance limits of moduli spaces in quantum gravity, which relates the field space variation of the mass of the lightest tower of particles to the field space varia... Read More about Persistence of the pattern in the interior of 5d moduli spaces.

Gopakumar-Vafa invariants and the Emergent String Conjecture (2024)
Journal Article
Rudelius, T. (2024). Gopakumar-Vafa invariants and the Emergent String Conjecture. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(3), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282024%29061

The Emergent String Conjecture of Lee, Lerche, and Weigand holds that every infinite-distance limit in the moduli space of a quantum gravity represents either a decompactification limit or an emergent string limit in some duality frame. Within the co... Read More about Gopakumar-Vafa invariants and the Emergent String Conjecture.

Moduli space reconstruction and Weak Gravity (2023)
Journal Article
Gendler, N., Heidenreich, B., McAllister, L., Moritz, J., & Rudelius, T. (2023). Moduli space reconstruction and Weak Gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(12), Article 134. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282023%29134

We present a method to construct the extended Kähler cone of any Calabi-Yau threefold by using Gopakumar-Vafa invariants to identify all geometric phases that are related by flops or Weyl reflections. In this way we obtain the Kähler moduli spaces of... Read More about Moduli space reconstruction and Weak Gravity.

Sharpening the Distance Conjecture in diverse dimensions (2022)
Journal Article
Etheredge, M., Heidenreich, B., Kaya, S., Qiu, Y., & Rudelius, T. (2022). Sharpening the Distance Conjecture in diverse dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(12), Article 114. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282022%29114

The Distance Conjecture holds that any infinite-distance limit in the scalar field moduli space of a consistent theory of quantum gravity must be accompanied by a tower of light particles whose masses scale exponentially with proper field distance ‖ϕ... Read More about Sharpening the Distance Conjecture in diverse dimensions.

Non-invertible global symmetries and completeness of the spectrum (2021)
Journal Article
Heidenreich, B., McNamara, J., Montero, M., Reece, M., Rudelius, T., & Valenzuela, I. (2021). Non-invertible global symmetries and completeness of the spectrum. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(9), Article 203. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282021%29203

It is widely believed that consistent theories of quantum gravity satisfy two basic kinematic constraints: they are free from any global symmetry, and they contain a complete spectrum of gauge charges. For compact, abelian gauge groups, completeness... Read More about Non-invertible global symmetries and completeness of the spectrum.