Constraints on Dark Energy from Inflation and the Swampland Conjectures

TL;DR

This paper explores how the swampland conjectures can link inflationary models to quintessence, providing constraints on dark energy's equation of state deviations from -1.

Contribution

It proposes a framework connecting inflation and dark energy through swampland conjectures, offering new theoretical constraints.

Findings

Constraints on dark energy deviations from w=-1

Relation between inflationary models and quintessence

Implications for future dark energy measurements

Abstract

We discuss the prospects of measuring deviations of the dark energy equation of state from w=-1 by using the swampland conjectures to relate inflationary models to quintessence scenarios. This note is based on work done by the author with H. Murayama and C. Chiang arXiv:1811.01987.