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| author | Moradpouri, Ahmad. |
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| contents | The species scale is the energy scale at which quantum corrections to Einstein's theory of gravity become significant. In many cases, this scale corresponds to the string mass scale, which can be much lower than the Planck scale in the weak coupling limit. In this note, we explore a variant of the TCC conjecture, which we refer to as the refined TCC. This version is related to the species scale as a new cutoff in quantum gravity, and we study whether stringy modes remain stringy and never exceed the Hubble horizon. The refined TCC predicts a shorter lifetime for de-Sitter spacetime and imposes a bound on the cosmological constant. We present supporting evidence for the refined TCC from cosmological solutions of different compactifications of various string theories. Furthermore, it is argued that both the TCC and the refined TCC are incompatible with the big-bang singularity. Therefore, if the TCC and the refined TCC hold, the big bang singularity must be ruled out. In scenarios such as string gas cosmology, where the TCC is realized, the spacetime background remains completely regular. |
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| spellingShingle | The species scale and the refined TCC bound in time-dependent backgrounds of string theory Moradpouri, Ahmad. High Energy Physics - Theory The species scale is the energy scale at which quantum corrections to Einstein's theory of gravity become significant. In many cases, this scale corresponds to the string mass scale, which can be much lower than the Planck scale in the weak coupling limit. In this note, we explore a variant of the TCC conjecture, which we refer to as the refined TCC. This version is related to the species scale as a new cutoff in quantum gravity, and we study whether stringy modes remain stringy and never exceed the Hubble horizon. The refined TCC predicts a shorter lifetime for de-Sitter spacetime and imposes a bound on the cosmological constant. We present supporting evidence for the refined TCC from cosmological solutions of different compactifications of various string theories. Furthermore, it is argued that both the TCC and the refined TCC are incompatible with the big-bang singularity. Therefore, if the TCC and the refined TCC hold, the big bang singularity must be ruled out. In scenarios such as string gas cosmology, where the TCC is realized, the spacetime background remains completely regular. |
| title | The species scale and the refined TCC bound in time-dependent backgrounds of string theory |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22694 |