Modular fluxes, elliptic genera, and weak gravity conjectures in four dimensions

Abstract We analyse the Weak Gravity Conjecture for chiral four-dimensional F-theory compactifications with N = 1 supersymmetry. Extending our previous work on nearly tensionless heterotic strings in six dimensions, we show that under certain assumptions a tower of asymptotically massless states ari...

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Main Authors: Seung-Joo Lee, Wolfgang Lerche, Timo Weigand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-08-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2019)104