Swampland conjectures and late-time cosmology
Abstract
We discuss the cosmological implications of the string swampland conjectures for late-time cosmology, and test them against a wide range of state of the art cosmological observations. The refined de Sitter conjecture constrains either the minimal slope or the curvature of the scalar potential, and depends on two dimensionless constants. For constants of size one or larger, tension exists between observations, especially the Hubble constant, and the slope and curvature conjectures at a level of 4.5σ and 2.3σ, respectively. Smaller values of the constants are permitted by observations, and we determine upper bounds at varying confidence levels. We also derive and constrain the relationship between cosmological observables and the scalar field excursion during the acceleration epoch, thereby testing the distance conjecture.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1507604
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1593891
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009924; FG02-13ER41958; NNX15AK22G; PHY-1316960
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D.
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Alternative gravity theories; Cosmic microwave background; Dark energy; String phenomenology
Citation Formats
Raveri, Marco, Hu, Wayne, and Sethi, Savdeep. Swampland conjectures and late-time cosmology. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083518.
Raveri, Marco, Hu, Wayne, & Sethi, Savdeep. Swampland conjectures and late-time cosmology. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083518
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"Swampland conjectures and late-time cosmology". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083518.
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abstractNote = {We discuss the cosmological implications of the string swampland conjectures for late-time cosmology, and test them against a wide range of state of the art cosmological observations. The refined de Sitter conjecture constrains either the minimal slope or the curvature of the scalar potential, and depends on two dimensionless constants. For constants of size one or larger, tension exists between observations, especially the Hubble constant, and the slope and curvature conjectures at a level of 4.5σ and 2.3σ, respectively. Smaller values of the constants are permitted by observations, and we determine upper bounds at varying confidence levels. We also derive and constrain the relationship between cosmological observables and the scalar field excursion during the acceleration epoch, thereby testing the distance conjecture.},
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year = {Thu Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083518
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