Swampland conjectures and slow-roll thawing quintessence
Abstract
We examine the Swampland conjectures in the context of generic slow-roll thawing quintessence models. Defining λ≡|$$V'(ϕ_{i})/V(ϕ_{i})$$| and K≡ $$ \sqrt{1-4V''(ϕ_{i})/3V(ϕ_{i})}$$, where ϕi is the initial value of ϕ, we find regions of parameter space consistent with both observational data and with the refined de Sitter conjecture, and we show that all such models satisfy the distance conjecture. We quantify the degree of fine-tuning on λ needed to achieve these results.
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- Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
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- 1661699
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- OSTI ID: 1670438; OSTI ID: 1783238
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- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 102 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Dark energy; Strings & branes
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Storm, S. David, and Scherrer, Robert J. Swampland conjectures and slow-roll thawing quintessence. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.063519.
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"Swampland conjectures and slow-roll thawing quintessence". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.063519.
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title = {Swampland conjectures and slow-roll thawing quintessence},
author = {Storm, S. David and Scherrer, Robert J.},
abstractNote = {We examine the Swampland conjectures in the context of generic slow-roll thawing quintessence models. Defining λ≡|$V'(ϕ_{i})/V(ϕ_{i})$| and K≡ $ \sqrt{1-4V''(ϕ_{i})/3V(ϕ_{i})}$, where ϕi is the initial value of ϕ, we find regions of parameter space consistent with both observational data and with the refined de Sitter conjecture, and we show that all such models satisfy the distance conjecture. We quantify the degree of fine-tuning on λ needed to achieve these results.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.102.063519},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 6,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {9}
}
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