Cheeger bounds on spin-two fields
| Autor: | De Luca, G. Bruno, De Ponti, Nicolò, Mondino, Andrea, Tomasiello, Alessandro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 217 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP12(2021)217 |
| Popis: | We consider gravity compactifications whose internal space consists of small bridges connecting larger manifolds, possibly noncompact. We prove that, under rather general assumptions, this leads to a massive spin-two field with very small mass. The argument involves a recently-noticed relation to Bakry--\'Emery geometry, a version of the so-called Cheeger constant, and the theory of synthetic Ricci lower bounds. The latter technique allows generalizations to non-smooth spaces such as those with D-brane singularities. For AdS$_d$ vacua with a bridge admitting an AdS$_{d+1}$ interpretation, the holographic dual is a CFT$_d$ with two CFT$_{d-1}$ boundaries. The ratio of their degrees of freedom gives the graviton mass, generalizing results obtained by Bachas and Lavdas for $d=4$. We also prove new bounds on the higher eigenvalues. These are in agreement with the spin-two swampland conjecture in the regime where the background is scale-separated; in the opposite regime we provide examples where they are in naive tension with it. Comment: 61 pages, 4 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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