Elementary Constituents Conjecture

TL;DR

This paper conjectures that quantum gravity cobordism classes are trivialized by elementary objects with tension at most Planck units, supported by evidence and motivated by the attractor mechanism within the Swampland program.

Contribution

It proposes a new conjecture linking cobordism classes and elementary objects with bounded tension in quantum gravity, integrating kinematic and dynamical perspectives.

Findings

Evidence supporting the trivialization of cobordism classes by elementary generators.

Identification of a regime where the tension of these objects is at most Planckian.

Integration of the attractor mechanism into the Swampland framework.

Abstract

In this note, we conjecture and provide evidence that quantum gravity cobordism classes are trivialized by elementary generators with tension at most order 1 in Planck units. Motivated by the attractor mechanism and a number of key examples, we propose that there is always a regime in the field space of the EFT in which the intrinsic tension of such an object is at most Planckian. This work brings together kinematic and dynamical aspects of cobordism defects in the context of the Swampland program.