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The web of swampland conjectures and the TCC bound

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-08-26 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the swampland distance and de Sitter conjectures, of respective order one parameters λ\lambda and cc. Inspired by the recent Trans-Planckian Censorship conjecture (TCC), we propose a generalization of the distance conjecture, which bounds λ\lambda to be a half of the TCC bound for cc, i.e. λ1223\lambda \geq \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}} in 4d. In addition, we propose a correspondence between the two conjectures, relating the tower mass mm on the one side to the scalar potential VV on the other side schematically as mV12m\sim |V|^{\frac{1}{2}}, in the large distance limit. These proposals suggest a generalization of the scalar weak gravity conjecture, and are supported by a variety of examples. The lower bound on λ\lambda is verified explicitly in many cases in the literature. The TCC bound on cc is checked as well on ten different no-go theorems, which are worked-out in detail, and VV is analysed in the asymptotic limit. In particular, new results on 4d scalar potentials from type II compactifications are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.2004.00030,
  title  = {The web of swampland conjectures and the TCC bound},
  author = {David Andriot and Niccolò Cribiori and David Erkinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00030},
  year   = {2020}
}

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v2: minor modifications, published version