Bordisms between 9d type IIB supergravities and commutator widths of duality groups
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| author | Heras, Camilo las Ruiz, Ignacio |
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| contents | We study the topological properties of bordisms interpolating between different 9d gauged supergravities obtained from compactification of type IIB string theory on $\mathbb{S}^1$ with a non-trivial $\mathsf{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$ bundle. We describe how such bordisms implement the needed monodromies through stacks of $[p,q]$ 7-branes or gravitational solitons of non-trivial topology. For the later mechanism, we see that the topology of the bordism becomes increasingly complicated for large monodromies, which results in the associated bordisms being arbitrarily suppressed, against expectations on the breaking of global symmetries in Quantum Gravity. Motivated by this, we propose a refinement of the Swampland Cobordism Conjecture for the first bordism group $Ω_1({\rm B}G)$ with a $G$ duality bundle. We argue that even if gravitational solitons can realize the monodromies associated with elements of the commutator subgroup of $G$, if the number of needed commutators is unbounded (in other words, the commutator width of $G$ diverges) then an infinite number of duality defects realizing elements in $G$ need to be included. We test this proposal for different duality groups $G$, and see that our expectations are realized, often in non-trivial ways. |
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| spellingShingle | Bordisms between 9d type IIB supergravities and commutator widths of duality groups Heras, Camilo las Ruiz, Ignacio High Energy Physics - Theory We study the topological properties of bordisms interpolating between different 9d gauged supergravities obtained from compactification of type IIB string theory on $\mathbb{S}^1$ with a non-trivial $\mathsf{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$ bundle. We describe how such bordisms implement the needed monodromies through stacks of $[p,q]$ 7-branes or gravitational solitons of non-trivial topology. For the later mechanism, we see that the topology of the bordism becomes increasingly complicated for large monodromies, which results in the associated bordisms being arbitrarily suppressed, against expectations on the breaking of global symmetries in Quantum Gravity. Motivated by this, we propose a refinement of the Swampland Cobordism Conjecture for the first bordism group $Ω_1({\rm B}G)$ with a $G$ duality bundle. We argue that even if gravitational solitons can realize the monodromies associated with elements of the commutator subgroup of $G$, if the number of needed commutators is unbounded (in other words, the commutator width of $G$ diverges) then an infinite number of duality defects realizing elements in $G$ need to be included. We test this proposal for different duality groups $G$, and see that our expectations are realized, often in non-trivial ways. |
| title | Bordisms between 9d type IIB supergravities and commutator widths of duality groups |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15276 |