Isocurvature perturbations of dark energy and dark matter from the Swampland conjecture

We point out that the recently proposed Swampland conjecture on the potential gradient can lead to isocurvature perturbations of dark energy, if the quintessence field acquires large quantum fluctuations during high-scale inflation preferred by the conjecture. Also, if the quintessence field is coup...

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Main Authors: Hiroki Matsui, Fuminobu Takahashi, Masaki Yamada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318309900