Speaker: Tom Rudelius (Durham U., Dept. of Math.)
Title: Co-Scaling and Alignment of Electric and Magnetic States
Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30
Abstract: Towers of electrically and magnetically charged states in quantum gravity often exhibit two important properties. First, the ratio of the mass (or tension) of electrically charged states to magnetically charged states is of order g^2, which we refer to as “co-scaling.” Second, in theories of multiple gauge fields, the towers of states that exhibit co-scaling have charges that point in approximately the same direction in charge space as measured by the gauge kinetic matrix, which we refer to as “alignment.” In this talk, I present heuristic arguments for and examples of co-scaling and alignment in the string landscape, and I discuss applications to phenomenology and cosmology.
