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Journal of High Energy Physics

We study the Swampland Distance Conjecture for supersymmetric theories with AdS5 backgrounds and fixed radius through their $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 SCFT holographic duals. By the Maldacena-Zhiboedov theorem, around a large class of infinite-distance points there must exist a tower of exponentially massless higher-spin fields in the bulk, for which we find bounds on the decay rate in terms of the conformal data. We discuss the origin of this tower in the gravity side for type IIB compactification on S5 and its orbifolds, and comment about more general cases.

Tackling the SDC in AdS with CFTs