AdS and the Swampland

We study aspects of anti-de Sitter space in the context of the Swampland. In particular, we conjecture that the near-flat limit of pure AdS belongs to the Swampland, as it is necessarily accompanied by an infinite tower of light states. The mass of the tower is power-law in the cosmological constant...

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Main Authors: Dieter Lüst, Eran Palti, Cumrun Vafa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-10-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319305817