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F-term axion monodromy inflation

Marchesano, Fernando, Shiu, Gary, Uranga, Angel M.·2014·Journal of High Energy Physics

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The continuous shift symmetry of axions is at the heart of several realizations of inflationary models. In particular, axion monodromy inflation aims at achieving super-Planckian field ranges for the inflaton in the context of string theory. Despite the elegant underlying principle, explicit models constructed hitherto are exceedingly complicated. We propose a new and better axion monodromy inflationary scenario, where the inflaton potential arises from an F-term. We present several scenarios, where the axion arises from the Kaluza-Klein compactification of higher dimensional gauge fields (or p-form potentials) in the presence of fluxes and/or torsion homology. The monodromy corresponds to a change in the background fluxes, and its F-term nature manifests in the existence of domain walls interpolating among flux configurations. Our scenario leads to diverse inflaton potentials, including linear large field behaviour, chaotic inflation, as well as potentials with even higher powers. They provide an elegant set of constructions with properties in the ballpark of the recent BICEP2 observational data on primordial gravitational waves.

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Figure 1 a) The T-dual of a D7-brane on a Taub-NUT is a D6- and an NS5-branes at points in the T-dual circle. b) As the D6-brane crosses the NS5-brane, an stretched D4-brane is created. c) Moving to larger values of φ the D6-brane returns close to the NS5-brane. d) Creation of additional D4-branes in each crossing implies the monodromy in φ . The additional brane creation in each crossing makes this construction differ from figure 1 in [17].
Figure 1 a) The T-dual of a D7-brane on a Taub-NUT is a D6- and an NS5-branes at points in the T-dual circle. b) As the D6-brane crosses the NS5-brane, an stretched D4-brane is created. c) Moving to larger values of φ the D6-brane returns close to the NS5-brane. d) Creation of additional D4-branes in each crossing implies the monodromy in φ . The additional brane creation in each crossing makes this construction differ from figure 1 in [17].CC-BY · From the PDF

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Authors
Marchesano, F., Shiu, G., & Uranga, A. M.
Venue
Journal of High Energy Physics
Published
2014-09
Volume
2014
Issue
9
ISSN
1029-8479
Cited by
177
References
72
Language
en

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