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It is well-known that allowing for spatial curvature affects constraints on cosmological parameters such as the dark energy equation of state parameters. Here we study the effect of curvature on constraints on parameters used to test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jason Dossett , Mustapha Ishak

The weak gravity conjecture has been proposed as a criterion to distinguish the landscape from the swampland in string theory. As an application in cosmology of this conjecture, we use it to impose theoretical constraint on parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xing Wu , Zong-Hong Zhu

In this study, we investigate the $w$CDM dynamical dark energy model with spatial curvature utilizing the recently released DESI Collaboration data (DR1 and DR2) in conjunction with other observational probes such as BBN, Observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Manish Yadav , Archana Dixit , M. S. Barak , Anirudh Pradhan

We examine bounds on accelerated expansion in asymptotic regions of the moduli space in string theory compactifications to four spacetime dimensions. While there are conjectures that forbid or constrain accelerated expansion in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Sera Cremonini , Eduardo Gonzalo , Muthusamy Rajaguru , Yuezhang Tang , Timm Wrase

If the spatial sections of the Universe are positively curved, extrapolating the inflationary stage backward in time inevitably leads to a classical bounce. This simple scenario, non-singular and free of exotic physics, deserves to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 Cyril Renevey , Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau

The effective field theory of dark energy and modified gravity is supposed to well describe, at low energies, the behaviour of the gravity modifications due to one extra scalar degree of freedom. The usual curvature perturbation is very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Antonio De Felice , Noemi Frusciante , Georgios Papadomanolakis

We prove the conditions under which scaling cosmologies are inevitable late-time attractors of multi-field multi-exponential potentials, independently of initial conditions. The advantage of such scaling cosmologies is that the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-25 Gary Shiu , Flavio Tonioni , Hung V. Tran

The swampland conjectures (SCs) propose constraints on effective field theories that can arise from a consistent theory of quantum gravity. Two prominent SCs suggest that the scalar field excursion and the gradient of the potential should…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Rubén Arjona , Savvas Nesseris

We propose a large class of nonsingular cosmologies of arbitrary spatial curvature whose cosmic history is determined by a primeval dynamical $\Lambda (t)$-term. For all values of the curvature, the models evolve between two extreme de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 J. A. S. Lima , E. L. D. Perico , G. J. M. Zilioti

Stability, dark energy (DE) parameterization and swampland aspects for the Bianchi form-$VI_{h}$ universe have been formulated in an extended gravity hypothesis. Here we have assumed a minimally coupled geometry field with a rescaled…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan

We review the advanced version of the KKLT construction and pure $d=4$ de Sitter supergravity, involving a nilpotent multiplet, with regard to various conjectures that de Sitter state cannot exist in string theory. We explain why we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-22 Yashar Akrami , Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Valeri Vardanyan

We analyze the public DESI full-shape clustering data using simulation-based priors (SBPs). Our priors are obtained by fitting normalizing flows to the distribution of EFT parameters measured from field-level simulations, themselves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

We argue that under certain assumptions the quantum break time approach and the trans-Planckian censorship conjecture both lead to de Sitter swampland constraints of the same functional form. It is a well known fact that the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Ralph Blumenhagen , Christian Kneissl , Andriana Makridou

Swampland conjecture has been recently proposed to connect early time cosmological models with the string landscape, and then to understand if related scalar fields and potentials can come from some fundamental theory in the high energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-09 Micol Benetti , Salvatore Capozziello , Leila Lobato Graef

We study the de Sitter (dS) swampland conjecture in the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflation model. We obtain the dS swampland bound for the relativistic regime using Bousso's entropy bound argument and proper distance. It restricts $m_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-09 Min-Seok Seo

We study induced gravity dark energy models coupled with a simple monomial potential $\propto \sigma^n$ and a positive exponent $n$. These simple potentials lead to viable dark energy models with a weak dependence on the exponent, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Caterina Umiltà , Daniela Paoletti

In this work we examine the Swampland criteria for a specific class of rescaled $f(R)$ gravitational models, that are capable of unifying the primordial era of the Universe with the late-time era with the inclusion of string corrections. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-20 Achilles Gitsis , Konstantinos-Rafail Revis , S. A. Venikoudis , F. P. Fronimos

We investigate the constraints on cosmological parameters especially for EoS of dark energy, inflationary parameters, neutrino mass and curvature of universe using simulated Planck data. Firstly we determine cosmological parameters with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li , Gong-Bo Zhao , Xinmin Zhang

We explore the viable $f(R)$ gravity models in FLRW backgrounds with a free spatial curvature parameter $\Omega_{K}$. In our numerical calculation, we concentrate on the exponential $f(R)$ model of $f(R) = R - \lambda…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-18 Chao-Qiang Geng , Yan-Ting Hsu , Jhih-Rong Lu

The \(w_{\dagger}\)VCDM framework provides a theoretically well-controlled extension of \(\Lambda\)CDM within the class of minimally modified gravity theories, allowing for flexible cosmological background evolution and linear perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Artur Ladeira , Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang