Natural inflation from near alignment in heterotic string theory

被引:16
作者
Ali, Tibra [1 ]
Haque, S. Shajidul [2 ,3 ]
Jejjala, Vishnu [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, 31 Caroline St North, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
[2] Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Phys, Natl Inst Theoret Phys, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa
[3] Univ Witwatersrand, Mandelstam Inst Theoret Phys, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
FLATNESS; UNIVERSE; HORIZON;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.083516
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We propose a model for large field inflation in heterotic string theory. The construction applies the near alignment mechanism of Kim, Nilles, and Peloso. By including gaugino condensates and world-sheet instanton nonperturbative effects, we obtain a large effective axion decay constant.
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