The refined Swampland Distance Conjecture in Calabi-Yau moduli spaces

Abstract

The Swampland Distance Conjecture claims that effective theories derived from a consistent theory of quantum gravity only have a finite range of validity. This will imply drastic consequences for string theory model building. The refined version of this conjecture says that this range is of the order of the naturally built in scale, namely the Planck scale. It is investigated whether the Refined Swampland Distance Conjecture is consistent with proper field distances arising in the well understood moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau compactification. Investigating in particular the non-geometric phases of Kähler moduli spaces of dimension h¹¹ ∈ {1, 2, 101}, we always find proper field distances that are smaller than the Planck-length.