Backreaction issues in axion monodromy and Minkowski 4-forms

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)098zbMATH Open1380.85022arXiv1611.00394OpenAlexW3103085942MaRDI QIDQ683209FDOQ683209

Authors: Irene Valenzuela 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: We clarify the differences between the usual Kaloper-Sorbo description of axion monodromy and the effective axionic potential in terms of Minkowski 4-forms derived in string compactifications. The fact that the metric of the 3-form fields coming from string theory is field dependent (unlike in Kaloper-Sorbo) leads to the backreaction issues recently studied in axion monodromy models within string theory. We reanalyse these problems in terms of the 4-forms focusing on the case in which the non-periodic scalars backreact on the Kahler metric of the inflaton reducing the physical field range. In the closed string sector of Type II Calabi-Yau compactifications with fluxes the metric becomes field dependent precisely when $Deltaphisim{M}_p$, independently of the choice of fluxes. We propose, however, some counter-examples to this universal behaviour by including open string fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00394

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMflux compactificationssuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

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