Trans-Planckian censorship and the swampland

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)123zbMATH Open1454.85006arXiv1909.11063MaRDI QIDQ1995145FDOQ1995145

Alek Bedroya, Cumrun Vafa

Publication date: 18 February 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new Swampland condition, the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC), based on the idea that in a consistent quantum theory of gravity sub-Planckian quantum fluctuations should remain quantum and never become larger than the Hubble horizon and freeze in an expanding universe. TCC leads to conditions that are similar to the refined dS Swampland conjecture. For example, applied to the case of cosmologies driven only by a scalar field, the TCC imposes an upper bound of $2/sqrtd-2$ on the asymptotic value of $|V^{\prime }|/V$. Additionally, it implies that a monotonically changing potential across a field space interval $Deltaphi$ must satisfy $Vleq{V}_{max}exp(-2Deltaphi/sqrt(d-1)(d-2))$. Like the dS Swampland conjecture, the TCC forbids long-lived meta-stable dS spaces, but allows sufficiently short-lived ones.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11063

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMmodels of quantum gravitysuperstring vacuacompactification and string models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

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