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Large Volume Axionic Swiss-Cheese Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v6 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Continuing with the ideas of (section 4 of) [1], after inclusion of perturbative and non-perturbative alpha' corrections to the Kaehler potential and (D1- and D3-) instanton generated superpotential, we show the possibility of slow-roll axionic inflation in the large volume limit of Swiss-Cheese Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications of type IIB string theory. We also include one- and two-loop corrections to the Kaehler potential but find the same to be subdominant to the (perturbative and non-perturbative) alpha' corrections. The NS-NS axions provide a flat direction for slow-roll inflation to proceed from a saddle point to the nearest dS minimum.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1260,
  title  = {Large Volume Axionic Swiss-Cheese Inflation},
  author = {Aalok Misra and Pramod Shukla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1260},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

1+15 pages, LaTeX; some errors corrected and now get number of e-foldings as 60 - this supersedes the published version

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