Weak gravity strongly constrains large-field axion inflation

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2015)108zbMath1388.81939arXiv1506.03447MaRDI QIDQ2636301

Matthew Reece, Ben Heidenreich, Tom Rudelius

Publication date: 31 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03447

zbMATH Keywords

models of quantum gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMcompactification and string models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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