BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Irene Valenzuela (Harvard) DTSTART:20210519T133000Z DTEND:20210519T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260423T024750Z UID:SISSAHEP/10 DESCRIPTION:Title: A CFT Distance Conjecture\nby Irene Valenzuela (Harvard) as part of SISSA HEP seminars\n\n\nAbstract\nWe formulate a series of conjectures rel ating the geometry of conformal manifolds to the spectrum of local operato rs in conformal field theories in d>2 spacetime dimensions. Our central co njecture is that all theories at infinite distance in the Zamolodchikov me tric possess an emergent higher-spin symmetry\, generated by an infinite t ower of currents whose anomalous dimensions vanish exponentially in the di stance. This is sustained by known data collected from the landscape of SC FTs\, and yet it suggests a number of intriguing new properties. In the ho lographic context our conjectures are related to the Distance Conjecture i n the Swampland program. Interpreted gravitationally\, they imply that app roaching infinite distance in moduli space at fixed AdS radius\, a tower o f higher-spin fields becomes massless at an exponential rate that is bound ed from below in Planck units. This relates to recent developments of the Distance Conjecture in N=1 4d supergravity theories\, where higher spin fi elds also play an essential role as the conjecture seems to follow from th e universal presence of an axionic BPS string at every infinite field dist ance limit.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/SISSAHEP/10/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR