Looking for structure in the cobordism conjecture

The cobordism conjecture of the swampland program states that the bordism group of quantum gravity must be trivial. We investigate this statement in several directions, on both the mathematical and physical side. We consider the Whitehead tower construction as a possible organising principle for...

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Main Author: David Andriot, Nils Carqueville, Niccolò Cribiori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2022-09-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.13.3.071