Quantum Corrections and the de Sitter Swampland Conjecture

Abstract

Recently a swampland criterion has been proposed that rules out de Sitter vacua in string theory. Such a criterion should hold at all points in the field space and especially at points where the system is on-shell. However there has not been any attempt to examine the swampland criterion against explicit equations of motion. In this paper we study four-dimensional de Sitter and quasi-de Sitter solutions using dimensionally reduced M-theory. While on one hand all classical sources that could allow for solutions with de Sitter isometries are ruled out, the quantum corrections, on the other hand, are found to allow for de Sitter solutions provided certain constraints are satisfied. A careful study however shows that generically such a constrained system does not allow for an effective field theory description in four-dimensions. Nevertheless, if some hierarchies between the various quantum pieces could be found, certain solutions with an effective field theory description might exist. Such hierarchies appear once some mild time dependence is switched on, in which case certain quasi-de Sitter solutions may be found without a violation of the swampland criterion.

arXiv comment41 pages, 1 figure, LaTex; v2: Typos corrected and references added; v3: Quantum effects further elaborated and a new table added, typos corrected and references added; v4: Typos corrected and some discussions added. The published version in JHEP is slightly abridged by the removal of section 2 where the swampland criteria were summarized

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