The web of swampland conjectures and the TCC bound
Abstract
We consider the swampland distance and de Sitter conjectures, of respective order one parameters and . Inspired by the recent Trans-Planckian Censorship conjecture (TCC), we propose a generalization of the distance conjecture, which bounds to be a half of the TCC bound for , i.e. in 4d. In addition, we propose a correspondence between the two conjectures, relating the tower mass on the one side to the scalar potential on the other side schematically as , 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 is verified explicitly in many cases in the literature. The TCC bound on is checked as well on ten different no-go theorems, which are worked-out in detail, and is analysed in the asymptotic limit. In particular, new results on 4d scalar potentials from type II compactifications are obtained.
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Cite
@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}
}
Comments
v2: minor modifications, published version