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de Sitter swampland bound in the Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-09 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the de Sitter (dS) swampland conjecture in the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflation model. We obtain the dS swampland bound for the relativistic regime using Bousso's entropy bound argument and proper distance. It restricts mPlV/Vm_{\rm Pl}\nabla V/V by some positive constant depending on warping and the field range. In the specific case of the DBI model driven by the quadratic potential, the model-dependent backreaction argument is interpreted as a natural bound for the slow-roll parameter. This shows that quasi-dS spacetime in the DBI model is a result of tuning.

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@article{arxiv.1812.07670,
  title  = {de Sitter swampland bound in the Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation model},
  author = {Min-Seok Seo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.07670},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, no figure, version published in Phys. Rev. D