Beschreibung
Symmetric moduli spaces: boundaries, geodesics and the distance conjecture
In the context of the Swampland program, the Distance Conjecture predicts an infinite tower of states becoming massless at infinite distance in moduli spaces of string compactifications. This is widely believed to be a general feature of quantum gravity, but it is difficult to prove in full generality. On the other hand, the moduli spaces of toroidally compactified M- and string theories are coset spaces of symmetric type, which are mathematically fairly well understood. In this work, we provide a framework to study systematically the infinite distance limits for this class and use this knowledge to argue for the Distance Conjecture in this subset of theories, which could give insights for the case of more complicated moduli spaces with symmetric asymptotic regions.
