Putting the boot into the swampland

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2019; no. 3; pp. 1 - 31
• Main Authors: Conlon, Joseph P., Quevedo, Fernando
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2019; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Elementary Particles; Field theory; Flux compactifications; Fluxes; High energy physics; Holography; Microphysics; Parity; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum gravity; Quantum Physics; Quantum theory; Regular Article - Theoretical Physics; Relativity Theory; Scalars; String Theory; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

A bstract The swampland program of delineating the space of effective field theories consistent with quantum gravity appears similar to the bootstrap program of delineating the space of quantum field theories consistent with conformal symmetry. With this in mind we rewrite the effective field theory...