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We investigate the quintessence scalar field model modified by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle in the background of a spatially flat homogeneous and isotropic universe. By performing a dynamical system analysis we examine the nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Alex Giacomini , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Supriya Pan

We present new static spherically-symmetric exact solutions of Einstein equations with the quintessential matter surrounding a black hole charged or not as well as for the case without the black hole. A condition of additivity and linearity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 V. V. Kiselev

A novel approach to quintessential inflation model building is studied, within the framework of $\alpha$-attractors, motivated by supergravity theories. Inflationary observables are in excellent agreement with the latest CMB observations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-23 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Charlotte Owen

We propose possible properties of quantum gravity in de Sitter space, and find that they relate the value of the cosmological constant to parameters of the Standard Model. In de Sitter space we suggest (i) that the most sharply defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Mark P. Hertzberg , Abraham Loeb

The recently introduced swampland criterion for de Sitter (arXiv:1806.08362) can be viewed as a (hierarchically large) bound on the smallness of the slow roll parameter $\epsilon_V$. This leads us to consider the other slow roll parameter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-12 Sumit K. Garg , Chethan Krishnan

The refined swampland de Sitter conjecture (SdSC) is a proposed constraint on the form of the total potential in a theory including quantum gravity. According to this conjecture potentials possessing metastable de Sitter vacua are in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 John March-Russell , Rudin Petrossian-Byrne

We explore in this work whether Slotheon model of Dark Energy obeys the Swampland criteria of string theory. Since de Sitter vacuum is very difficult to construct in string theory the cosmological constant as an explanation of Dark Energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-05 Upala Mukhopadhyay , Debasish Majumdar

Realising de Sitter vacua in string theory is challenging. For this reason it has been conjectured that de Sitter vacua inhabit the Swampland of inconsistent low-energy effective theories coupled to gravity. Since de Sitter is an attractor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Eoin Ó Colgáin , Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Hossein Yavartanoo

We discuss the cosmological implications of the string swampland conjectures for late-time cosmology, and test them against a wide range of state of the art cosmological observations. The refined de Sitter conjecture constrains either the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu , Savdeep Sethi

We present updated constraints on an interacting dark energy - dark matter model with pure momentum transfer, where dark energy is in the form of a quintessence scalar field with an exponential potential. We run a suite of MCMC analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Alkistis Pourtsidou

We point out that the recently proposed Swampland conjecture on the potential gradient can lead to isocurvature perturbations of dark energy, if the quintessence field acquires large quantum fluctuations during high-scale inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-02 Hiroki Matsui , Fuminobu Takahashi , Masaki Yamada

In the Swampland philosophy of constraining EFTs from black hole mechanics we study charged black hole evaporation in de Sitter space. We establish how the black hole mass and charge change over time due to both Hawking radiation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Miguel Montero , Thomas Van Riet , Victoria Venken

We examine a quintessence model with a modified exponential potential given by $V(\phi) = V_0(1+e^{-\lambda \phi})$. Unlike quintessence with a standard exponential potential, our model can yield an acceptable accelerated expansion at late…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-02 Hui-Yiing Chang , Robert J. Scherrer

In this Letter, we study the implications of string Swampland criteria for dark energy in view of ongoing and future cosmological observations. If string theory should be the ultimate quantum gravity theory, there is evidence that exact de…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Lavinia Heisenberg , Matthias Bartelmann , Robert Brandenberger , Alexandre Refregier

The dS swampland conjecture $|\nabla V|/V \geq c$, where $c$ is presumed to be a positive constant of order unity, implies that the dark energy density of our Universe can not be a cosmological constant, but mostly the potential energy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Kiwoon Choi , Dongjin Chway , Chang Sub Shin

Recent observations of Type Ia supernova at high redshifts establish that the dark energy component of the universe has (a probably constant) ratio between pressure and energy density $w=p/\rho=-1.02(^{+0.13}_{-0.19})$. The conventional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Edgard Gunzig , Alberto Saa

Swampland Conjectures have attracted quite some interest in the Cosmological Community. They have been shown to have wide ranging implications , like Constraints on Inflationary Models, Primordial Black Holes etc. to name a few. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-22 Oem Trivedi

We analyze a model of quintessence governed by an exponential potential and non-minimally coupled to gravity, in light of recent datasets, including cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillations, and supernovae distance moduli…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Samuel Sánchez López , Alexandros Karam , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

Inflation is the currently accepted paradigm for the beginnings of the Universe. To explain the observed almost scale invariant spectrum of density perturbations with only a slight spectral tilt, inflation must have been "slow roll", that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-07 Hao Geng

We examine the Swampland conjectures in the context of generic slow-roll thawing quintessence models. Defining $\lambda \equiv |V^{\prime}(\phi_i)/V(\phi_i)|$ and $K \equiv \sqrt{1 - 4V^{\prime \prime}(\phi_i)/3V(\phi_i)}$, where $\phi_i$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 S. David Storm , Robert J. Scherrer