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Relative Quantum Gravity: Localized Gravity and the Swampland

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Pith's one-line read Localized gravity theories can violate swampland constraints, but are reconciled when defined as relative to a higher-dimensional host gravity theory.

desk verdict A real conceptual step for swampland constraints on localized gravity, but the paper's universal reconciliation claim runs ahead of its evidence—the WGC/completeness states in the explicit ETW backgrounds have infinite proper length. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.03310 v1 pith:AVXLJUIM submitted 2025-01-06 hep-th

Edoardo Anastasi , Roberta Angius , Jesús Huertas , Angel Uranga , Chuying Wang This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords relativequantumgravitylocalizedswamplandconstraintsEndoftheWorldbranesKarch-Randallbraneworldsdoubleholographyspeciesscalebranedefects
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The reading

This paper tries to establish a new rule for brane-localized gravity: a lower-dimensional gravity theory living on an End of the World (ETW) boundary of a higher-dimensional gravitational spacetime is not by itself a complete quantum gravity. The rule it proposes is that such theories are 'relative quantum gravity': they must be defined together with a host higher-dimensional gravity theory, and only the coupled system is constrained by the swampland. On that reading, the localized sector can admit exact global symmetries, even anomalous ones, and can appear to violate cobordism, completeness, weak gravity, distance, no-stable-non-supersymmetric-AdS, and de Sitter conjectures; the coupled system nonetheless satisfies the constraints examined, because the host gauges the symmetries, cancels anomalies by inflow, supplies missing charges as relative defects, and generates gauge dynamics through CFT backreaction. If these claims hold, swampland tests of brane-world and holographic setups should be applied to the brane-plus-bulk system, and apparent violations by a brane sector alone need not signal an inconsistent vacuum.

What carries the argument

At the center is the Karch-Randall End of the World brane: a codimension-one tensionful brane that truncates $\mathrm{AdS}_{d+1}$ spacetime, so that the induced worldvolume is a $d$-dimensional gravity theory with $\mathrm{AdS}_d$, Minkowski, or de Sitter slices. Double holography is the computational engine: the same configuration is viewed in three equivalent ways, namely as bulk gravity in $\mathrm{AdS}_{d+1}$, as a CFT$_d$ on half-space coupled to a boundary CFT$_{d-1}$, and as an intermediate picture in which $\mathrm{AdS}_d$ gravity is coupled to a cutoff CFT$_d$. Holographic renormalization of the bulk action produces the brane effective action, in which the cutoff plays the role of the species scale and the CFT fast modes generate gauge kinetic terms, explaining how global symmetries become gauge. The top-down side uses 10d supergravity solutions for semi-infinite D3-branes ending on NS5- and D5-brane stacks, giving $\mathrm{AdS}_4$ ETW configurations of $\mathrm{AdS}_5 \times S^5$ that realize the same inflow and relative-defect mechanisms in string theory.

What would settle it

Build or find a scale-separated End of the World brane in string theory and check whether the localized sector alone violates a swampland constraint while the coupled brane-plus-bulk system satisfies it. The specific checks are already listed in the paper: absence of a localized gauge zero mode, the light KK tower in the flat-space limit, and the D5-D7 tachyon decay of non-supersymmetric ETW configurations. If in such a setup the brane sector already satisfies the constraint, or the coupled system still violates one, the universal claim is settled negatively.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim, stated as the authors present it, is that localized gravity sits to the swampland as a boundary condition sits to a bulk theory: it can violate the conjectures on its own, but is reconciled when read as part of a higher-dimensional gravitational theory. In the Karch-Randall construction, bulk gauge fields have no localized mode on the ETW brane, so a bulk gauge symmetry appears as a global symmetry in the brane theory; the bulk's topological sector nevertheless knows that the symmetry is gauged. Boundaries of bulk extended objects, such as strings ending on the brane or domain walls reaching the brane, are exactly the relative defects that restore the completeness and weak gravity conjectures, while holographic renormalization shows that integrating out fast CFT modes generates the missing gauge kinetic terms and fixes the species scale. The paper extends the same pattern to cobordism, distance conjectures, stable non-supersymmetric AdS vacua, and de Sitter: each constraint can be evaded by the localized sector, and each is restored by the host, with explicit top-down string backgrounds used for the global-symmetry, anomaly, cobordism, and AdS-distance cases.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the ten-dimensional string configurations, which the paper itself calls toy versions with no scale separation and no true 5d/4d effective description, still represent genuinely lower-dimensional localized gravity, at least through their topological arguments; if the relative size of the internal dimensions matters for the constraints, the microscopic case reduces to bottom-up constructions.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Bulk gauge symmetries look global on the brane, so the no-global-symmetry constraint is satisfied by the bulk gauging rather than by the brane sector alone.
  • Missing charged states are restored as relative defects, namely endpoints in the brane of objects extended in the host, so completeness and weak gravity hold for the coupled system.
  • The species scale on the brane is fixed by the CFT degrees of freedom and coincides with the semiclassical correction scale of quantum black holes; the same backreaction generates the gauge kinetic terms, giving a quantitative emergence story.
  • Apparent stable non-supersymmetric AdS or de Sitter vacua in the localized sector are not counterexamples, because the host supplies decay channels such as tachyon condensation in D5-D7 systems and, for dS, no known UV-complete embedding exists.
  • Where current string models lack scale separation, the paper's conclusions rest on topological arguments; genuinely scale-separated ETW embeddings would make the relative-quantum-gravity statement a property of genuine lower-dimensional gravity.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the relative picture is correct, a swampland constraint that appears violated in the brane sector should be treated as a signal of incompleteness, not as a counterexample to the conjecture; conversely, a host constraint may require localized objects that were previously considered optional.
  • The mechanism suggests a formal restatement: a relative quantum gravity theory is defined by a boundary condition on the host's topological anomaly and symmetry sector, making it a gravitational analogue of relative quantum field theories.
  • The no-scale-separation caveat makes the next decisive step the construction of an ETW brane in a genuinely scale-separated AdS vacuum; if the same pattern of violation-then-reconciliation appears there, the proposal would apply to the phenomenological regime.
  • The paper focuses on codimension-one boundaries; extending the same relative logic to higher-codimension or non-AdS hosts would test whether the concept is a general feature of localized gravity or specific to ETW braneworlds.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper proposes that gravity theories localized on codimension-one End of the World (ETW) branes can violate standard swampland constraints when considered in isolation, but satisfy them when regarded as 'relative quantum gravity' theories coupled to a higher-dimensional host gravity theory. The main constructions are Karch-Randall braneworlds in AdS_{d+1}, analyzed through double holography, and explicit 10d supergravity solutions realizing AdS_4 ETW boundaries of AdS_5 x S^5 from D3-branes ending on NS5/D5 systems. The paper argues that localized theories can admit global symmetries, anomalous symmetries, violations of completeness and the weak gravity conjecture, cobordism violations, distance-conjecture violations, stable non-supersymmetric AdS vacua, and even de Sitter vacua, while the coupled system satisfies the conjectures. It also uses holographic renormalization to identify the species scale and to describe the emergence of gauge dynamics.

Significance. If the main thesis is correct, it is a substantial conceptual contribution: swampland constraints would apply to the higher-dimensional completion rather than to the localized gravitational sector, giving a precise sense in which such theories are 'relative'. The paper is unusually systematic, covering many swampland conjectures in one framework, and it includes explicit top-down string constructions based on known 10d supergravity solutions. Its quantitative holographic-renormalization computations of the brane effective action and the species scale are a strength, as is the identification of concrete mechanisms such as anomaly inflow from the bulk, the SymTFT fan, and relative defects. At the same time, the paper's own caveats about the absence of scale separation in the 10d solutions and the lack of any top-down embedding for de Sitter ETW branes mean that the universal claim of the abstract is not yet supported by the evidence presented.

major comments (4)
  1. [§4.1, §4.2, and Eq. (5.4)-(5.5)] The reconciliation of the completeness and weak gravity conjectures for the explicit top-down models is not demonstrated, because the proposed 'relative defects' are not finite-energy states in the constructed backgrounds. A fundamental string with one endpoint on the D5-brane stack and the other endpoint escaping into the AdS_5 x S^5 throat has infinite proper length: in the metric (5.4)-(5.5) the coordinate x runs to +infinity, so the Nambu-Goto action diverges. The estimate m ~ L_4 in §4.2 therefore requires a cutoff in the extra dimension, which is either merely formal, in which case the state is not part of the theory, or requires a second physical ETW brane, which is not constructed in the explicit string background. Thus the claim that the coupled system satisfies completeness and the WGC is not established for the top-down examples.
  2. [§2.2.2 and §5.1.2] The scale-separation caveat is load-bearing rather than cosmetic. The paper explicitly states that the 10d ETW solutions have no scale separation and that 'there is no regime of validity of the EFT admitting an actual description in terms of 5d gravity,' and it calls these configurations 'toy versions of possible genuinely scale separated setups.' Some arguments may be topological and hence insensitive to the sizes of compact spaces, but the distance-conjecture analysis in §5.1.2 relies on the scaling of the X_6 volume and on the KK tower whose mass scale is set by L_{X_6} ~ L_{AdS_4} ~ N_5^{1/2}. If scale separation is essential for the validity of the AdS distance conjecture or for the interpretation of the towers as lower-dimensional states, the top-down evidence for relative quantum gravity collapses to bottom-up constructions. The authors should either construct scale-separated ETW embeddings or state explicitly which of the conjectural conclusions are independent of scale separation and why.
  3. [§6.2] The de Sitter case is acknowledged to lack a known top-down string embedding. The paper presents only a bottom-up dS_d ETW brane in AdS_{d+1} and then a conditional Festina Lente argument that identifies challenges for hypothetical embeddings, with admitted loopholes (e.g., a D9-tachyon condensate giving mass to the would-be massless fermions). The abstract's sweeping claim that 'all swampland constraints are however satisfied' when the localized theory is coupled to a higher-dimensional one is therefore too strong for the dS sector: the paper does not provide a microscopic relative completion of a de Sitter localized-gravity theory, and it explicitly leaves the existence of such embeddings open. The conclusions should be restricted to the AdS and Minkowski cases for which explicit or well-motivated constructions exist.
  4. [Abstract and §7] The universal statement that 'all swampland constraints are satisfied' when localized gravity theories are completed by coupling to a higher-dimensional gravity theory is not established by the paper's own evidence. For several conjectures the paper gives only qualitative arguments or analogies (notably the CFT distance conjecture in §5.2 and the charge-convexity discussion in §4.2), and for the dS case there is no completion at all. The authors should recalibrate the abstract and conclusions to state which constraints are shown, for which classes of examples, and with which level of rigor.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§2.2.2] The sentence 'it is not a good UV completion of the 5d/4d bottom-up model in section 3.1.1' appears to cite the wrong section; the bottom-up Karch-Randall model is presented in section 2.1.1.
  2. [Introduction] In the sentence 'it can be made consistent it is coupled to a suitable CFT_d', 'it' should be 'if'.
  3. [§3.2.2] The notation 'D9- anti D9-brane pairs' is later abbreviated to 'D9-branes'; this should be defined explicitly to avoid confusion between brane-antibrane pairs and single branes.
  4. [§2.1.1, Eq. (2.7)] The relation m_g^2 ≃ (3/2)|Λ_4|^2 z_0^2 is quoted for d=4 from [53]; it would help the reader if the paper stated the assumptions under which this scaling holds (e.g., small z_0 and the specific foliation used).
  5. [§5.1.2, Eq. (5.8)] The relation m_{S5} ~ m_{X6} (N_5/P)^{1/4} is stated without derivation; a brief explanation of how the two KK scales originate from the two length scales would improve readability.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; the paper's claims are conditional on external swampland conjectures and are supported by independent prior constructions.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is a conditional reconciliation, not a circular reduction. It starts from explicit bottom-up and top-down localized-gravity constructions and assumes the external swampland conjectures for the host (d+1)-dimensional theory; it then exhibits mechanisms (anomaly inflow, relative defects, KK towers, decay channels) by which the localized theory inherits consistency. No parameter is fitted to a target swampland result, and no equation is defined in terms of the conclusion. The 10d ETW backgrounds and graviton-mass scaling are taken from prior published constructions [13-18,22], which are independent of the present paper's claims and are explicitly flagged as toy models without scale separation (Sec. 2.2.2: 'these configurations have no scale separation ... there is no regime of validity of the EFT admitting an actual description in terms of 5d gravity'). The WGC discussion (Sec. 4.2) uses a cutoff in the extra dimension to estimate m ~ L4 and checks the inequality; the paper itself labels this as qualitative ('It would be interesting to find explicit realizations of these ideas, to improve the qualitative estimates'), so it is not presenting a fitted input as a prediction. The dS discussion (Sec. 6.2) explicitly states there is no top-down embedding. The only soft spot is that the framework is conditional on the host satisfying the swampland conjectures; that is an external hypothesis, not a circular step, and the paper is transparent about it.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 2 invented entities

The central claim depends on interpreting lower-dimensional violations as artifacts of truncation, so the host theory is assumed to satisfy swampland constraints. The most fragile element is the ad hoc assumption that non-scale-separated string solutions can stand in for genuine localized gravity models. Independent evidence is absent because all examples are constructed within the same holographic framework.

free parameters (3)
  • brane tension tau / integration constant c = continuous and tunable in bottom-up; discrete in top-down
    Sets the ETW brane location and the localized graviton mass; chosen small to access the parametrically light graviton regime in section 2.1.1.
  • curvature ratio L_d / L_{d+1} = L_d >> L_{d+1}
    Needed for a parametrically light localized graviton; assumed as the working regime rather than derived from microscopic data.
  • integer ratio N5/P in the example of section 2.2.3 = large, with N = 2 N5 P
    Chooses the gravity-localization limit in the string model and controls the angle between the holographic boundary and the ETW brane.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The host (d+1)-dimensional theory is a UV-complete quantum gravity satisfying the swampland conjectures.
    Used throughout sections 3.4, 4, and 6 to argue that completing the localized theory restores the standard constraints.
  • domain assumption The double holography dictionary is valid: AdS_{d+1} with an ETW brane is dual to a CFT_d coupled to a BCFT_{d-1}, and the intermediate picture is AdS_d gravity coupled to a cutoff CFT_d.
    Underlies the species scale, emergence of gauge dynamics, and quantitative claims in section 3.3.
  • ad hoc to paper Lack of scale separation in the 10d ETW solutions does not invalidate the lower-dimensional interpretation because key arguments are topological or can be obtained by dimensional reduction.
    Explicitly stated in section 2.2.2 as the justification for treating the string configurations as toy models of genuinely scale-separated setups.
  • domain assumption The combined CFT_d/BCFT_{d-1} system is local and unitary, so swampland conjectures apply to the combined system even if the BCFT alone violates them.
    Used in sections 4.2 and 5.2 to argue that the WGC and distance conjecture hold after coupling to the higher-dimensional theory.
invented entities (2)
  • Relative quantum gravity theories
    purpose: Conceptual label for d-dimensional gravity sectors whose consistency requires coupling to a higher-dimensional gravity host.
    New framework introduced by the paper; it has no falsifiable handle outside the paper's own examples and is defined in terms of the completion mechanism it is meant to describe.
  • Relative defects
    purpose: d-dimensional objects that exist only as boundaries of higher-dimensional defects extending into the host; used to restore completeness and cobordism.
    Introduced in sections 3.4 and 4.1 as the missing charged states and bordisms; no direct experimental signature is proposed.

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abstract

We perform a systematic study of the applicability of swampland constraints to theories of localized gravity. We find that these gravity theories can violate swampland constraints, but can be reconciled with them when coupled to a higher-dimensional gravity theory. They realize what we call $\textit{relative quantum gravity}$: to become consistent at the quantum level, these gravity theories must be defined as $\textit{relative}$ to a host higher-dimensional gravity theory. We show that these theories can admit global symmetries, even anomalous ones; they can violate the cobordism, completeness, weak gravity, and distance conjectures; they may admit stable non-supersymmetric AdS vacua, or dS vacua. All swampland constraints are however satisfied when these gravity theories are regarded as relative and completed by coupling them to a higher-dimensional one. We discuss these properties in $d$-dimensional gravity theories localized on Karch-Randall End of the World (ETW) boundaries of AdS$_{d+1}$ spacetime. For AdS$_d$ ETW branes we use the formalism of double holography to describe the appearance of the species scale and the emergence of gauge dynamics from the quantum backreaction of CFT$_d$ modes. We also study microscopically the swampland constraints in localized gravity in explicit string theory models. Concretely, we exploit the 10d supergravity solutions describing AdS$_4$ ETW branes for AdS$_5\times\mathbf{S}^5$, holographically dual to semi-infinite D3-branes ending on NS5- and D5-brane configurations, realizing 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ $SU(N)$ on half-space coupled to a 3d Gaiotto-Witten superconformal boundary CFT$_3$.

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