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We study the weak gravity conjecture, the swampland distance conjecture and the emergence proposal for \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 orientifold compactifications of type IIB string theory with O3-/O7-planes. We allow for orientifold projections with \( {h}_{+}^{2,1}\ne 0 \) which gives rise to closed-string U(1) gauge fields, and our findings show that certain structures present for \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 compactifications are not present for \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1. In particular, assumptions about stability have to be relaxed and we encounter an ambiguity for the emergence of gauge symmetries associated with the \( {h}_{+}^{2,1} \) sector.
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Rojo, M.E., Plauschinn, E. Swampland conjectures for type IIB orientifolds with closed-string U(1)s. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 26 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)026
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