IV Swamp Games

Which of the following Instiutions did not host a Swampland-related event in 2023:

• IFT Madrid

• CEA Saclay, Paris

• LMU Munich

• KIAS Seoul

Which of the following definitions does not correspond to the species scale?

• Scale of the gravitational higher derivative terms

• Size of the smallest semiclassical black hole

• Scale at which gravity becomes strongly coupled

• Scale at which the number of species equals the number of massless fields

Which of these string theories have had new branes explicitly studied in papers this year via the Cobordism conjecture:

• IIB

• IIA

• Het E8xE8

• Het SO(32)

Select all the authors who have published their first Swampland paper in the past year (from Dec 11, 2022 until now):

• Lorenzo Paoloni (IFT Madrid)

• Antonia Paraskevopoulou (MPI Munich)

• Luis Zapata (CINVESTAV, IPN)

• Juan Maldacena (IAS)

• Suman Kundu (Weizmann Inst.)

Which of the following (by itself) may give accelerated expansion:

• Curved spatial slices with steep potentials

• Very steep potentials

• Unsuppressed bubble nucleation

• Casimir energy

What has already been shown that can emerge from integrating out towers of states getting light?

• Kinetic terms of scalars in vector multiplets of 4d N=2

• Kinetic term of the radius in a circle compactification with more than 8 supercharges

• Gauge kinetic function in 4d N=2

• Gauge fields in CP^N model

What exactly is "Swamplandia"?

• A novel about a family of alligator wrestlers living in Florida

• An annual workshop about Swampland physics research

• A short-lived conference series on the philosophy of arithmetics

• A genus of plants primarily found in swamplands

As of today, bootstrap methods can:

• Constrain the sign of higher derivative terms

• To show that higher spin points are at infinite distance in d>2 conformal manifolds

• Place bounds on the number of massless fields

• Put bounds on the cut-off of the EFT

The following is not the Lie algebra of the gauge group of a tachyon-free string in ten dimensions:

• so(16)+so(16)

• e8

• usp(32)

• u(32)

The following statement seems to be true in any infinite distance limit in moduli space in string theory:

• Scalar curvature is negative

• At least one sectional curvature is positive

• At least one sectional curvature is negative

• The moduli space volume in a neighborhood of the infinite distance limit is finite