Topological Eternal Hilltop Inflation and the Swampland Criteria

Abstract

The swampland criteria put significant constraints on inflation models. In this paper, I show that hilltop inflation on the brane may provide an initial condition for hilltop inflation and produce topological eternal inflation without violating the swampland distance and refined de Sitter criteria. This shows a way that string theory may not be incompatible with eternal inflation.

arXiv comment11 pages, 1 figure, to be published in JCAP

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