Topological eternal hilltop inflation and the swampland criteria
Chia-Min Lin
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.
Topics & Concepts
Inflation (cosmology)PhysicsTheoretical physicsDe Sitter universeString theoryBraneTopology (electrical circuits)String (physics)UniverseEternal inflationExtra dimensionsCosmologyBrane cosmologyParticle physicsM-theoryBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesNoncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories