Beschreibung
Decoding Dualities at Divergent Distance
String theory is quite picky: the only weakly coupled degrees of freedom that arise beyond effective quantum fields are encoded in a unique critical string, and dualities relate its various limits. Can we bootstrap this rigidity from general quantum gravity ideas? Combining insights on information theory, black holes and scattering amplitudes we build a swamplandish case for the emergent string conjecture. To this end, we leverage the properties of minimal black holes to indicate the emergence of geometry and strings from light towers of species, consistently with a complementary worldsheet conformal field theory analysis.
