TY - JOUR
T1 - Distance and de Sitter conjectures on the Swampland
AU - Ooguri, Hirosi
AU - Palti, Eran
AU - Shiu, Gary
AU - Vafa, Cumrun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors
PY - 2019/1/10
Y1 - 2019/1/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.018
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85057334352
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 788
SP - 180
EP - 184
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -