Higgs inflation and its extensions and the further refining dS swampland conjecture

Abstract

On the one hand, David Andriot and Christoph Roupec proposed an alternative refined de Sitter conjecture, which gives a natural condition on a combination of the first and second derivatives of the scalar potential. On the other hand, in our previous article, we have found that Palatini Higgs inflation model is in strong tension with the refined de Sitter swampland conjecture. Therefore, following our previous research, in this article we examine if Higgs inflation model and its two variations: Palatini Higgs inflation and Higgs-Dilaton model can satisfy the further refining de Sitter swampland conjecture or not. Based on observational data, we find that these three inflationary models can always satisfy this new swampland conjecture if only we adjust the relevant parameters a, b=1-a and q. Therefore,if the further refining de Sitter swampland conjecture does indeed hold, then the three inflationary models might all be in landscape.