de Sitter Bubbles and the Swampland

DOI10.1002/PROP.202000084MaRDI QIDQ6069682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alek Bedroya, Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa, Irene Valenzuela

Publication date 14 November 2023

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07555

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: A number of Swampland conjectures and in particular the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC) suggest that de Sitter space is highly unstable if it exists at all. In this paper we construct effective theories of scalars rolling on potentials which are dual to a chain of short-lived dS spaces decaying from one to the next through a cascade of non-perturbative nucleation of bubbles. We find constraints on the effective potential resulting from various swampland criteria, including TCC, Weak Gravity Conjecture and Distance Conjecture. Surprisingly we find that TCC essentially incorporates all the other ones, and leads to a subclass of possible dual effective potentials. These results marginally rule out emergence of eternal inflation in the dual effective theory. We discuss some cosmological implications of our observations.

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