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PHYSICS LETTERS B
卷 808, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135683
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- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
- European Union [665501]
We study the implications on inflation of an infinite tower of higher-spin states with masses falling exponentially at large field distances, as dictated by the Swampland Distance Conjecture. We show that the Higuchi lower bound on the mass of the tower automatically translates into an upper bound on the inflaton excursion. Strikingly, the mere existence of all spins in the tower forbids any scalar displacement whatsoever, at arbitrarily small Hubble scales, and it turns out therefore incompatible with inflation. A certain field excursion is allowed only if the tower has a cut-off in spin. Finally, we show that this issue is circumvented in the case of a tower of string excitations precisely because of the existence of such a cut-off, which decreases fast enough in field space. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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