1:30 pm MCP 201
Black Hole Insights into the Swampland.
In this talk, we will review several instances where black hole properties shed light on the consistency conditions of gravitational effective field theories, as captured by Swampland conjectures. After a brief introduction to some of these conjectures and the role that black holes played in their motivation, we will focus on how minimal black holes can be used to constrain the physics of asymptotic regions of field space. In these regions, their entropy appears to correspond to that of towers of states predicted by the Distance Conjecture, and it can be used to understand what kinds of towers are allowed. To conclude, we will comment on recent insights from Schwarzschild-AdS black holes into the question of scale separation in AdS through the AdS Distance Conjecture. Together, these insights highlight how black holes serve as windows into the Swampland, offering guidance on the boundaries of consistent theories of gravity.