Classical Black Hole Probes of UV Scales
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| author | Calderón-Infante, José Delgado, Matilda Li, Yixuan Lust, Dieter Uranga, Angel M. |
| author_facet | Calderón-Infante, José Delgado, Matilda Li, Yixuan Lust, Dieter Uranga, Angel M. |
| contents | In the context of the Swampland program, black hole attractors have been employed to probe infinite distances in moduli space, where the EFT cutoff goes to zero in Planck units and UV effects become significant. In this paper, we take the perspective of the two-derivative action of string theoretic effective field theories and explore various families of extremal black hole solutions that probe infinite distance limits at their horizons. While these solutions do not include higher-order corrections in the EFT expansion, we find that, in many cases, the smallest BPS black holes in these families remarkably reproduce either the species scale or some other Kaluza-Klein scale. In highly supersymmetric cases, this match with UV scales even persists in the interior of moduli space. We even find that non-BPS black holes solutions in circle compactification of Type II string theories follow the species scale in decompactification limits. These observations suggests that the two-derivative action may encode information about relevant UV scales. We discuss the interplay of these results with emergence and UV/IR mixing in quantum gravity. |
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| spellingShingle | Classical Black Hole Probes of UV Scales Calderón-Infante, José Delgado, Matilda Li, Yixuan Lust, Dieter Uranga, Angel M. High Energy Physics - Theory In the context of the Swampland program, black hole attractors have been employed to probe infinite distances in moduli space, where the EFT cutoff goes to zero in Planck units and UV effects become significant. In this paper, we take the perspective of the two-derivative action of string theoretic effective field theories and explore various families of extremal black hole solutions that probe infinite distance limits at their horizons. While these solutions do not include higher-order corrections in the EFT expansion, we find that, in many cases, the smallest BPS black holes in these families remarkably reproduce either the species scale or some other Kaluza-Klein scale. In highly supersymmetric cases, this match with UV scales even persists in the interior of moduli space. We even find that non-BPS black holes solutions in circle compactification of Type II string theories follow the species scale in decompactification limits. These observations suggests that the two-derivative action may encode information about relevant UV scales. We discuss the interplay of these results with emergence and UV/IR mixing in quantum gravity. |
| title | Classical Black Hole Probes of UV Scales |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03514 |