Hybrid inflation in intersecting brane worlds

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00614-4zbMATH Open0998.83063arXivhep-th/0202124OpenAlexW3102775535MaRDI QIDQ697915FDOQ697915


Authors: Ralph Blumenhagen, Boris Körs, Dieter Lüst, Tassilo Ott Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 September 2002

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

Abstract: Non-supersymmetric brane world scenarios in string theory display perturbative instabilities that usually involve run-away potentials for scalar moduli fields. We investigate in the framework of intersecting brane worlds whether the leading order scalar potential for the closed string moduli allows to satisfy the slow-rolling conditions required for applications in inflationary cosmology. Adopting a particular choice of basis in field space and assuming mechanisms to stabilize some of the scalars, we find that slow-rolling conditions can be met very generically. In intersecting brane worlds inflation can end nearly instantaneously like in the hybrid inflation scenario due to the appearance of open string tachyons localized at the intersection of two branes, which signal a corresponding phase transition in the gauge theory via the condensation of a Higgs field.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202124




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