The challenge of realizing F-term axion monodromy inflation in string theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2015)007zbMATH Open1390.83375arXiv1409.7075OpenAlexW3099624505MaRDI QIDQ1754763FDOQ1754763

Authors: Ralph Blumenhagen, Daniela Herschmann, Erik Plauschinn 

Publication date: 31 May 2018

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

Abstract: A systematic analysis of possibilities for realizing single-field F-term axion monodromy inflation via the flux-induced superpotential in type IIB string theory is performed. In this well-defined setting the conditions arising from moduli stabilization are taken into account, where we focus on the complex-structure moduli but ignore the Kaehler moduli sector. Our analysis leads to a no-go theorem, if the inflaton involves the universal axion. We furthermore construct an explicit example of F-term axion monodromy inflation, in which a single axion-like field is hierarchically lighter than all remaining complex-structure moduli.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7075

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zbMATH Keywords

strings and branes phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50)

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