Emergence of Species Scale Black Hole Horizons
Jos\'e Calder\'on-Infante, Matilda Delgado, Angel M. Uranga

TL;DR
This paper explores the species scale in quantum gravity by analyzing small black holes, revealing how it manifests through scalar fields, higher derivative corrections, and black hole horizons in various string theory models.
Contribution
It provides a unified framework connecting the species scale to black hole horizons, scalar field behavior, and higher derivative effects in string theory and supergravity.
Findings
The species scale sets the size of the smallest black hole horizon.
Higher derivative corrections become relevant at the species scale.
Explicit examples in supergravity and string theory support the framework.
Abstract
The scale at which quantum gravity becomes manifest, the species scale , has recently been argued to take values parametrically lower than the Planck scale. We use black holes of vanishing horizon area (small black holes) in effective field theories coupled to quantum gravity to shed light on how the three different physical manifestations of the species scale relate to each other. (i) Near the small black hole core, a scalar field runs to infinite distance in moduli space, a regime in which the Swampland Distance Conjecture predicts a tower of exponentially light states, which lower . (ii) We integrate out modes in the tower and generate via Emergence a set of higher derivative corrections, showing that is the scale at which such terms become relevant. (iii) Finally, higher derivative terms modify the black hole solution and grant it a…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics · Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories · Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
