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The quantum swampland

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v2

Abstract

In this paper we propose a quantum version of the swampland conjecture. We argue that quantum instabilities of de Sitter space discovered using field theoretical methods, are directly related to the difficulties in finding stringy de Sitter vacua.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04512,
  title  = {The quantum swampland},
  author = {Ulf H. Danielsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04512},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, references added

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