Natural Inflation from Near Alignment in Heterotic String Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-04-16 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
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 non-perturbative effects, we obtain a large effective axion decay constant.
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@article{arxiv.1410.4660,
title = {Natural Inflation from Near Alignment in Heterotic String Theory},
author = {Tibra Ali and S. Shajidul Haque and Vishnu Jejjala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4660},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
1+16 pages, 1 figure; Numerical example updated to published version