The quantum swampland

2018/09/30 by Ulf Danielsson, Ulf H. Danielsson · 3 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Conjecture #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #De Sitter space #De Sitter universe #Field (mathematics) #Linguistics #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Philosophy #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum #Quantum field theory #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #Theoretical physics #Universe #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep04(2019)095

13 pages, references added

arxiv created 2018/11/01 · openalex publication_date 2019/04/01 · arxiv updated 2019/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

A bstract In this paper we propose a quantum version of the swampland conjecture. We argue that quantum instabilities of de Sitter space discovered using field theoretical methods, are directly related to the difficulties in finding stringy de Sitter vacua.

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