The web of swampland conjectures and the TCC bound

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)162zbMATH Open1451.83105arXiv2004.00030WikidataQ123255850 ScholiaQ123255850MaRDI QIDQ2215411FDOQ2215411

Niccolò Cribiori, David Erkinger, David Andriot

Publication date: 11 December 2020

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

Abstract: We consider the swampland distance and de Sitter conjectures, of respective order one parameters $lambda$ and $c$. Inspired by the recent Trans-Planckian Censorship conjecture (TCC), we propose a generalization of the distance conjecture, which bounds $lambda$ to be a half of the TCC bound for $c$, i.e. $lambdageqfrac12sqrtfrac23$ in 4d. In addition, we propose a correspondence between the two conjectures, relating the tower mass $m$ on the one side to the scalar potential $V$ on the other side schematically as $msim|V{|}^{frac12}$, in the large distance limit. These proposals suggest a generalization of the scalar weak gravity conjecture, and are supported by a variety of examples. The lower bound on $lambda$ is verified explicitly in many cases in the literature. The TCC bound on $c$ is checked as well on ten different no-go theorems, which are worked-out in detail, and $V$ is analysed in the asymptotic limit. In particular, new results on 4d scalar potentials from type II compactifications are obtained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00030

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zbMATH Keywords

flux compactificationssupergravity modelssuperstring vacuasupersymmetric effective theoriesTrans-Planckian Censorship conjecture (TCC)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)

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