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How a four-dimensional de Sitter solution remains outside the swampland

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-08-06 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We argue that, in the presence of time-dependent fluxes and quantum corrections, four-dimensional de Sitter solutions should appear in the type IIB string landscape and not in the swampland. Our construction considers generic choices of local and non-local quantum terms and satisfies the no-go and the swampland criteria, the latter being recently upgraded using the trans-Planckian cosmic censorship. Interestingly, both time-independent Newton constant and moduli stabilization may be achieved in such backgrounds even in the presence of time-dependent fluxes and internal spaces. However, once the time-dependence is switched off, any four-dimensional solution with de Sitter isometries appears to have no simple effective field theory descriptions and is back in the swampland.

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@article{arxiv.1911.02604,
  title  = {How a four-dimensional de Sitter solution remains outside the swampland},
  author = {Keshav Dasgupta and Maxim Emelin and Mir Mehedi Faruk and Radu Tatar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02604},
  year   = {2021}
}

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30 pages, 4 figures; v2: Typos corrected and references added; v3: Typos corrected and more references added

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