Axion inflation in F-theory

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.10.043zbMATH Open1306.81411arXiv1404.4268OpenAlexW1968964070MaRDI QIDQ2257239FDOQ2257239

Authors: Thomas W. Grimm 

Publication date: 24 February 2015

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the dynamics of axion-like fields in F-theory and suggest that they can serve as inflatons in models of natural inflation. The axions arise from harmonic three-forms on the F-theory compactification space and parameterize a complex torus that varies over the geometric moduli space. In particular, this implies that the axion decay constants depend on the complex structure moduli that can be fixed by background fluxes. This might allow tuning them to be super-Planckian in a controlled way and allow for interesting single field inflationary models. We argue that this requires a localization of the three-forms near regions of strong string coupling, analogously to the reasoning that GUT physics requires the use of F-theory. These models can admit a tensor to scalar ratio r>0.1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4268

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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