Tame Complexity of Effective Field Theories in the Quantum Gravity Landscape

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18863v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:00:00 GMT
• Title: Tame Complexity of Effective Field Theories in the Quantum Gravity Landscape
• Authors: Thomas W. Grimm, David Prieto, Mick van Vliet,
• Abstract summary: We show that effective field theories obey surprising finiteness constraints, appearing in several distinct but interconnected forms.<n>We propose a framework that unifies these observations by proposing that the defining data of such theories admit descriptions with a uniform bound on complexity.<n>This work also yields mathematically well-defined notions of counting and volume measures on the space of effective theories.
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• Abstract: Effective field theories consistent with quantum gravity obey surprising finiteness constraints, appearing in several distinct but interconnected forms. In this work we develop a framework that unifies these observations by proposing that the defining data of such theories, as well as the landscape of effective field theories that are valid at least up to a fixed cutoff, admit descriptions with a uniform bound on complexity. To make this precise, we use tame geometry and work in sharply o-minimal structures, in which tame sets and functions come with two integer parameters that quantify their information content; we call this pair their tame complexity. Our Finite Complexity Conjectures are supported by controlled examples in which an infinite Wilsonian expansion nevertheless admits an equivalent finite-complexity description, typically through hidden rigidity conditions such as differential or recursion relations. We further assemble evidence from string compactifications, highlighting the constraining role of moduli space geometry and the importance of dualities. This perspective also yields mathematically well-defined notions of counting and volume measures on the space of effective theories, formulated in terms of effective field theory domains and coverings, whose finiteness is naturally enforced by the conjectures.

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