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We demonstrate that there is no controlled description of stochastic eternal inflation consistent with the refined swampland de Sitter conjecture.
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Brahma, S., Shandera, S. Stochastic eternal inflation is in the swampland. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 16 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2019)016
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