Dark energy, extra dimensions, and the swampland

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2020)091zbMATH Open1437.85008arXiv2005.01143WikidataQ130454821 ScholiaQ130454821MaRDI QIDQ783906FDOQ783906

Authors: Gabriele Montefalcone, P. J. Steinhardt, Daniel H. Wesley 

Publication date: 4 August 2020

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

Abstract: Perhaps the greatest challenge for fundamental theories based on compactification from extra dimensions is accommodating a period of accelerated cosmological expansion. Previous studies have identified constraints imposed by the existence of dark energy for two overlapping classes of compactified theories: (1) those in which the higher dimensional picture satisfies certain metric properties selected to reproduce known low energy phenomenology; or (2) those derived from string theory assuming they satisfy the Swampland conjectures. For either class, the analyses showed that dark energy is only possible if it takes the form of quintessence. In this paper, we explore the consequences for theories that belong to both classes and show that the joint constraints are highly restrictive, leaving few options.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01143

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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