1. How a four-dimensional de Sitter solution remains outside the swampland
- Author
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Mir Mehedi Faruk, Keshav Dasgupta, Maxim Emelin, and Radu Tatar
- Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Cosmic censorship hypothesis ,FOS: Physical sciences ,M-Theory ,QC770-798 ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ,Swampland ,01 natural sciences ,String (physics) ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology ,Moduli ,Theoretical physics ,High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) ,De Sitter universe ,Flux compactifications ,Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity ,0103 physical sciences ,Effective field theory ,String Duality ,010306 general physics ,Constant (mathematics) ,Quantum - 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., 30 pages, 4 figures; v2: Typos corrected and references added; v3: Typos corrected and more references added
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- 2021