Journal of High Energy Physics (Dec 2023)

Moduli space reconstruction and Weak Gravity

  • Naomi Gendler,
  • Ben Heidenreich,
  • Liam McAllister,
  • Jakob Moritz,
  • Tom Rudelius

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2023)134
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 12
pp. 1 – 44

Abstract

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Abstract 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 all favorable Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces with h 1,1 ≤ 4, including toric and non-toric phases. In this setting we perform an explicit test of the Weak Gravity Conjecture by using the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants to count BPS states. All of our examples satisfy the tower/sublattice WGC, and in fact they even satisfy the stronger lattice WGC.

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