Aligned natural inflation in string theory

作者:Long Cody*; McAllister Liam; McGuirk Paul
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2014, 90(2): 023501.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.023501

摘要

We propose a scenario for realizing super-Planckian axion decay constants in Calabi-Yau orientifolds of type IIB string theory, leading to large-field inflation. Our construction is a simple embedding in string theory of the mechanism of Kim, Nilles, and Peloso, in which a large effective decay constant arises from alignment of two smaller decay constants. The key ingredient is gaugino condensation on magnetized or multiply-wound D7-branes. We argue that, under very mild assumptions about the topology of the Calabi-Yau, there are controllable points in moduli space with large effective decay constants.

  • 出版日期2014-7-10