Towards axionic Starobinsky-like inflation in string theory

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.05.001zbMATH Open1343.83048arXiv1503.01607OpenAlexW2100175220MaRDI QIDQ307480FDOQ307480

Ralph Blumenhagen, Anamaría Font, Daniela Herschmann, Erik Plauschinn, Michael Fuchs

Publication date: 1 September 2016

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

Abstract: It is shown that Starobinsky-like potentials can be realized in non-geometric flux compactifications of string theory, where the inflaton involves an axion whose shift symmetry can protect UV-corrections to the scalar potential. For that purpose we evaluate the backreacted, uplifted F-term axion-monodromy potential, which interpolates between a quadratic and a Starobinsky-like form. Limitations due to the requirements of having a controlled approximation of the UV theory and of realizing single-field inflation are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01607

zbMATH Keywords

string theoryinflationaxion monodromynon-geometric fluxes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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