IIB String Theory and Sequestered Inflation

DOI10.1002/PROP.202100127MaRDI QIDQ6069855zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Timm Wrase, Yusuke Yamada

Publication date 17 November 2023

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08492

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationstring theorysupergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: We develop sequestered inflation models, where inflation occurs along flat directions in supergravity models derived from type IIB string theory. It is compactified on a $mathbb{T}^{6}overmathbb{Z}_{2}imesmathbb{Z}_2$ orientifold with generalized fluxes and O3/O7-planes. At Step I, we use flux potentials which 1) satisfy tadpole cancellation conditions and 2) have supersymmetric Minkowski vacua with flat direction(s). The 7 moduli are split into heavy and massless Goldstone multiplets. At Step II we add a nilpotent multiplet and uplift the flat direction(s) of the type IIB string theory to phenomenological inflationary plateau potentials: $alpha$-attractors with 7 discrete values $3alpha=1,2,3,\mathrm{...},7$. Their cosmological predictions are determined by the hyperbolic geometry inherited from string theory. The masses of the heavy fields and the volume of the extra dimensions change during inflation, but this does not affect the inflationary dynamics.

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