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Moduli Space Reconstruction and Weak Gravity

Published 20 Dec 2022 in hep-th | (2212.10573v2)

Abstract: We present a method to construct the extended K\"ahler cone of any Calabi-Yau threefold by using Gopakumar-Vafa invariants to identify all geometric phases that are related by flops or Weyl reflections. In this way we obtain the K\"ahler moduli spaces of all favorable Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces with $h{1,1} \le 4$, including toric and non-toric phases. In this setting we perform an explicit test of the Weak Gravity Conjecture by using the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants to count BPS states. All of our examples satisfy the tower/sublattice WGC, and in fact they even satisfy the stronger lattice WGC.

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