Speaker
Description
I will explore the interplay between warped throats and some recently proposed quantum gravity conjectures, namely the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and the Distance Conjecture (DC). Motivated by the properties of systems of fractional branes at singularities, I will argue for a local version of the AdS-WGC, forbidding stable non supersymmetric Anti-de Sitter vacua, to large classes of locally AdS warped throats with supersymmetry breaking ingredients, and I will discuss some instability mechanisms in detail. Finally, I will show that warped throats of the Klebanov-Strassler (KS) kind describe fully backreacted solutions of transplanckiam axion monodromy, where the axion traverses arbitrarily large distances in field space, and comment upon the relation with the DC.
