Is the NANOGrav signal a hint of dS decay during inflation?

The NANOGrav collaboration recently has reported evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process in its 12.5 yr dataset. We show that such a signal might be a hint of de Sitter (dS) decay during inflation. As suggested by the swampland conjectures, dS space is highly unstable if it exists at all....

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Main Authors: Hao-Hao Li, Gen Ye, Yun-Song Piao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269321001519