Analysis reveals superextremal states in M-theory compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds, suggesting new gauge dualities.
The minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) predicts the emergence of towers of superextremal states in both weak and strong coupling limits. In this work, we study M-theory compactified on a special class of Calabi-Yau threefolds to construct a 5D effective field theory (EFT) that accommodates both weak and strong gauge coupling limits. Building on a classification of fiber structures of Calabi-Yau threefolds with finite volume, we establish a correspondence between curves in the fiber and the base, which relates weak and strong gauge couplings. This allows us to probe non-perturbative effects by treating strong couplings through their weakly counterparts. We use this result and properties of Bogomol'nyi--Prasad--Sommerfield (BPS) states to demonstrate that M-theory on such Calabi-Yau threefold exhibits towers of superextremal BPS states in the aforementioned extreme limits as expected by the minimal WGC.
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