The swampland conjecture and the Higgs expectation value

Abstract The recently proposed de Sitter swampland conjecture excludes local extrema of a scalar potential with a positive energy density in a low energy effective theory. Under the conjecture, the observed dark energy cannot be explained by the cosmological constant. The local maximum of the Higgs...

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Main Authors: Koichi Hamaguchi, Masahiro Ibe, Takeo Moroi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)023