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Phenomenological Consequences of the Refined Swampland Conjecture

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-04-23 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We discuss phenomenological consequences of the recently-introduced refinements of the de Sitter swampland conjecture. The conjecture constraints the first and the second derivatives of the scalar potential in terms of two O(1)O(1) constants cc and cc', leading to interesting constraints on particle phenomenology, especially inflationary model building. Our work can also be regarded as bottom-up constraints on the values of cc and cc'.

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@article{arxiv.1810.06532,
  title  = {Phenomenological Consequences of the Refined Swampland Conjecture},
  author = {Hajime Fukuda and Ryo Saito and Satoshi Shirai and Masahito Yamazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06532},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures