de Sitter swampland conjecture and the Higgs potential
Open Access
- 2 October 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 98 (8), 086004
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.086004
Abstract
According to a conjecture recently put forward in [1], the scalar potential V of any consistent theory of quantum gravity satisfies a bound vertical bar del vertical bar/V >= O(1). This forbids de Sitter solutions and supports quintessence models of cosmic acceleration. Here, we point out that in the simplest models incorporating the standard model in addition to quintessence, with the two sectors decoupled as suggested by observations, the proposed bound is violated by 50 orders of magnitude. However, a very specific coupling between quintessence and just the Higgs sector may still be allowed and consistent with the conjecture.Funding Information
- Austrian Science Fund (P 30265)
- U.S. Department of Energy (de-sc0011941)
- Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics
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