New dynamical systems variables for coupled axion-saxion fields yield a general non-geodesicity expression at fixed points and identify genuinely non-geodesic attractors under exponential couplings.
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Distance and de Sitter Conjectures on the Swampland
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Among Swampland conditions, the distance conjecture characterizes the geometry of scalar fields and the de Sitter conjecture constrains allowed potentials on it. We point out a connection between the distance conjecture and a refined version of the de Sitter conjecture in any parametrically controlled regime of string theory by using Bousso's covariant entropy bound. The refined version turns out to evade all counter-examples at scalar potential maxima that have been raised. We comment on the relation of our result to the Dine-Seiberg problem.
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