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Taking the anti-de Sitter minimum of KKLT and the large volume scenario at face value, we argue for the existence of logarithmic quantum corrections to AdS swampland conjectures. If these conjectures receive such corrections, it is natural to suspect that they also arise for other swampland conjectures, in particular the dS swampland conjecture. We point out that the proposed log-corrections are in accord with the implications of the recently proposed trans-Planckian censorship conjecture. We also comment on the emergence proposal in the context of both perturbative flux models and the KKLT construction.
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Blumenhagen, R., Brinkmann, M. & Makridou, A. Quantum log-corrections to swampland conjectures. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 64 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2020)064
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