Pith. sign in

REVIEW 2 cited by

The trans-Planckian censorship conjecture from the swampland distance conjecture

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1910.12352 v3 pith:7I2KUNVQ submitted 2019-10-27 hep-th gr-qc

classification hep-thgr-qc
keywords conjecturetrans-planckiancensorshipdistancelargequantumswamplandapproach
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

Starting from the swampland distance conjecture, and using the species bound for a large number of weakly-coupled particles, we give a derivation of the recently proposed trans-Planckian censorship conjecture. Our argument demonstrates how a quantum gravity principle requires that trans-Planckian quantum fluctuations should never cross the Hubble horizon. We also comment on how logarithmic corrections to the de-Sitter conjecture arise naturally from such an approach when one relaxes the requirement of traversing parametrically large distances on field space.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 2 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Distance-Higuchi Bounds on Inflationary Field Ranges and Lifetimes

    hep-th 2026-08 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

    A quasi-de Sitter inflationary phase cannot remain free of spin-2 ghosts for longer than the smaller of a classical slow-roll time and a quantum-diffusion time, both polynomial in 1/H.

  2. Stochastic Survival near Swampland Boundaries

    hep-th 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    Surviving inflationary histories develop a universal inward drift near any hard swampland boundary — two times the diffusion over the distance to the edge — regardless of the cutoff's microscopic origin.

Pith tools