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Higher order corrections to Heterotic M-theory inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2009-11-19 v1

Abstract

We investigate inflation driven by NN dynamical five-branes in Heterotic M-theory using the scalar potential derived from the open membrane instanton sector. At leading order the resulting theory can be mapped to power law inflation, however more generally one may expect higher order corrections to be important. We consider a simple class of such corrections, which imposes tight bounds on the number of branes required for inflation.

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@article{arxiv.0907.0711,
  title  = {Higher order corrections to Heterotic M-theory inflation},
  author = {Paulo Vargas Moniz and Sudhakar Panda and John Ward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0711},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures