Is inflation from unwinding fluxes IIB?

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2017)037zbMATH Open1377.83153arXiv1611.07037MaRDI QIDQ1692913FDOQ1692913

Authors: Fridrik Freyr Gautason, Marjorie Schillo, Thomas Van Riet 

Publication date: 10 January 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we argue that the mechanism of unwinding inflation is naturally present in warped compactifications of type IIB string theory with local throats. The unwinding of flux is caused by its annihilation against branes. The resulting inflaton potential is linear with periodic modulations. We initiate an analysis of the inflationary dynamics and cosmological observables, which are highly constrained by moduli stabilization. For the simplified model of single-K"ahler Calabi-Yau spaces we find that many, though not all of the consistency constraints can be satisfied. Particularly, in this simple model geometric constraints are in tension with obtaining the observed amplitude of the scalar power spectrum. However, we do find 60 efolds of inflation with a trans-Planckian field excursion which offers the hope that slightly more complicated models can lead to a fully consistent explicit construction of large field inflation of this kind.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07037

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMD-branesflux compactifications[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=single-K%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDhler+Calabi-Yau+space&go=Go single-K��hler Calabi-Yau space]

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

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