Distance and de Sitter conjectures on the Swampland

By Hirosi Ooguri, Eran Palti, Gary Shiu, C. Vafa. Physics Letters B, 2018

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Among Swampland conditions, the distance conjecture characterizes the geometry of scalar fields and the de Sitter conjecture constrains allowed potentials on it. We point out a connection between the distance conjecture and a refined version of the de Sitter conjecture in any parametrically controlled regime of string theory by using Bousso's covariant entropy bound. The refined version turns out to evade all counter-examples at scalar potential maxima that have been raised. We comment on the relation of our result to the Dine–Seiberg problem.

Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Geometry and Topology

1. W. Lerche
2. T. Weigand
3. Eran Palti
4. Seung-Joo Lee
5. C. Vafa
6. M. Graña
7. Marcos Mariño
8. Mina Aganagic

In Mathematical Physics

1. Eran Palti
2. T. Weigand
3. C. Vafa
4. M. Graña
5. W. Lerche
6. Marcos Mariño
7. Mina Aganagic
8. A. Klemm

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. Eran Palti
2. T. Weigand
3. M. Graña
4. W. Lerche
5. C. Vafa
6. Seung-Joo Lee
7. Alek Bedroya
8. Alvaro Herr'aez

Citations in the corpus

• The Swampland: Introduction and Review (2019, methodology): “In [49] the refinement was motivated largely by the relation to the entropy of de Sitter space.”
• New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background (2022, background): “Such a discovery would have a far-reaching consequence for quantum gravity: As Λ > 0 is difficult to realise in quantum gravity 130,131 , a recent ‘Swamp-land’ proposal 132–134 favours a dynamical scalar field as the origin of dark energy 135,136 .”
• Emergent strings from infinite distance limits (2019, positive): “Apart from being interesting by itself, the appearance of a light tower of states at infinite distance is also linked to other recent conjectures on the nature of quantum gravity such as [21–24].”
• Trans-Planckian Censorship and the Swampland (2019, background): “However, the possibility that only TCC is correct is also an interesting possibility: TCC already explains the strongest evidence for the refined dS conjecture, which is the structure of the asymptotic regions of field space (see in particular [6]).”
• The Swampland Conjectures: A Bridge from Quantum Gravity to Particle Physics (2021, background): “This lead the authors of [60] to conjecture this to be a general feature of quantum gravity:”
• Lectures on the Swampland Program in String Compactifications (2021, background): “It was proposed in [99] that the SDC tower is responsible for the runaway behaviour of the potential.”
• Trans-Planckian censorship and inflationary cosmology (2019, background): “In [11], the relationship between the TCC and other swampland conjectures [12] which have recently attracted a lot of attention (see e.”