TY - JOUR
T1 - Distance and de Sitter conjectures on the Swampland
AU - Ooguri, Hirosi
AU - Palti, Eran
AU - Shiu, Gary
AU - Vafa, Cumrun
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Prateek Agrawal, Tom Banks, Raphael Bousso, Clifford Cheung, Daniel Chung, Joe Conlon, Albion Lawrence, Toshifumi Noumi, Georges Obied, Misao Sasaki, and Pablo Soler for discussions. The work of GS is supported in part by the DOE grant DE-SC0017647 and the Kellett Award of the University of Wisconsin. The work of CV is supported in part by NSF grant PHY-1067976. The work of HO is supported in part by U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0011632, by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan, by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C-26400240, and by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 15H05895. HO also thanks the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by the National Science Foundation grant PHY-1607611. We would like to thank the hospitality of Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, where this work was initiated during the 2018 Simons Summer workshop.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank Prateek Agrawal, Tom Banks, Raphael Bousso, Clifford Cheung, Daniel Chung, Joe Conlon, Albion Lawrence, Toshifumi Noumi, Georges Obied, Misao Sasaki, and Pablo Soler for discussions. The work of GS is supported in part by the DOE grant DE-SC0017647 and the Kellett Award of the University of Wisconsin. The work of CV is supported in part by NSF grant PHY-1067976 . The work of HO is supported in part by U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0011632 , by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan, by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C-26400240, and by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 15H05895. HO also thanks the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by the National Science Foundation grant PHY-1607611 . We would like to thank the hospitality of Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, where this work was initiated during the 2018 Simons Summer workshop.
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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 -