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| author | Bedroya, Alek Mishra, Rashmish K. Wiesner, Max |
| author_facet | Bedroya, Alek Mishra, Rashmish K. Wiesner, Max |
| contents | We study universal features of the density of one-particle states $ρ(E)$ in weakly coupled theories of gravity at energies above the quantum gravity cutoff $Λ$, defined as the scale suppressing higher-derivative corrections to the Einstein--Hilbert action. Using thermodynamic properties of black holes, we show that in asymptotically flat spacetimes, certain features of $ρ(E)$ above the black hole threshold $M_{\rm min}$ are an indicator for the existence of large extra dimensions, and cannot be reproduced by any lower-dimensional field theory with finitely many fields satisfying the weak energy condition. Based on the properties of gravitational scattering amplitudes, we argue that there needs to exist a (possibly higher-dimensional) effective description of gravity valid up to the cutoff $Λ$. Combining this with thermodynamic arguments we demonstrate that $ρ(E)$ has to grow exponentially for energies $Λ\ll E \ll M_{\rm min}$. Furthermore we show that the tension of any weakly coupled $p$-brane with $p\geq 1$ is bounded from below by $Λ^{p+1}$. We use this to argue that any tower of weakly coupled states with mass below $Λ$ has to be a Kaluza--Klein (KK) tower. Altogether these results indicate that in gravitational weak-coupling limits the lightest tower of states is either a KK tower, or has an exponentially growing degeneracy thereby resembling a string tower. This provides evidence for the Emergent String Conjecture without explicitly relying on string theory or supersymmetry. |
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| spellingShingle | Density of States, Black Holes and the Emergent String Conjecture Bedroya, Alek Mishra, Rashmish K. Wiesner, Max High Energy Physics - Theory We study universal features of the density of one-particle states $ρ(E)$ in weakly coupled theories of gravity at energies above the quantum gravity cutoff $Λ$, defined as the scale suppressing higher-derivative corrections to the Einstein--Hilbert action. Using thermodynamic properties of black holes, we show that in asymptotically flat spacetimes, certain features of $ρ(E)$ above the black hole threshold $M_{\rm min}$ are an indicator for the existence of large extra dimensions, and cannot be reproduced by any lower-dimensional field theory with finitely many fields satisfying the weak energy condition. Based on the properties of gravitational scattering amplitudes, we argue that there needs to exist a (possibly higher-dimensional) effective description of gravity valid up to the cutoff $Λ$. Combining this with thermodynamic arguments we demonstrate that $ρ(E)$ has to grow exponentially for energies $Λ\ll E \ll M_{\rm min}$. Furthermore we show that the tension of any weakly coupled $p$-brane with $p\geq 1$ is bounded from below by $Λ^{p+1}$. We use this to argue that any tower of weakly coupled states with mass below $Λ$ has to be a Kaluza--Klein (KK) tower. Altogether these results indicate that in gravitational weak-coupling limits the lightest tower of states is either a KK tower, or has an exponentially growing degeneracy thereby resembling a string tower. This provides evidence for the Emergent String Conjecture without explicitly relying on string theory or supersymmetry. |
| title | Density of States, Black Holes and the Emergent String Conjecture |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00083 |