TransPlanckian Censorship on Dark Dimension Inflation

arXiv:2607.22442 · hep-th, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-24 · Read on arXiv

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ignatios Antoniadis, Jules Cunat

hep-th, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-24

Comments: 34 pages with 3 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reheating — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bispectrum — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Grand Unified Theory — 1× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• Lectures on the string landscape and the Swampland
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• Universal Upper Bound on the Inflationary Energy Scale from the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture
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