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Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity waves and string inflation
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We present a simple mechanism for obtaining large-field inflation, and hence a gravitational wave signature, from string theory compactified on twisted tori. For nil manifolds, we obtain a leading inflationary potential proportional to ${\ensuremath{\phi}}^{2/3}$ in terms of the canonically normalized field $\ensuremath{\phi}$, yielding predictions for the tilt of the power spectrum and the tensor-to-scalar ratio, ${n}_{s}\ensuremath{\approx}0.98$ and $r\ensuremath{\approx}0.04$ with 60 e-foldings of inflation; we note also the possibility of a variant with a candidate inflaton potential proportional to ${\ensuremath{\phi}}^{2/5}$. The basic mechanism involved in extending the field range---monodromy in $D$-branes as they move in circles on the manifold---arises in a more general class of compactifications, though our methods for controlling the corrections to the slow-roll parameters require additional symmetries.
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“Of particular interest to us is an inverse relationship between systole size and volume: such a bound derived in [21,22] in the context of the inbreeding construction for small systoles [20] has the same effect of maintaining an order 1 value of the factor in brackets in (4.5).”
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- Authors
- Silverstein, E., & Westphal, A.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2008-11-06
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 1550-7998
- 1550-2368
- Cited by
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- References
- 103
- Language
- en
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