String Inflation After Planck 2013
Abstract
We briefly summarize the impact of the recent Planck measurements for string inflationary models, and outline what might be expected to be learned in the near future from the expected improvement in sensitivity to the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio. We comment on whether these models provide sufficient added value to compensate for their complexity, and ask how they fare in the face of the new constraints on non-gaussianity and dark radiation. We argue that as a group the predictions made before Planck agree well with what has been seen, and draw conclusions from this about what is likely to mean as sensitivity to primordial gravitational waves improves.
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@article{arxiv.1306.3512,
title = {String Inflation After Planck 2013},
author = {C. P. Burgess and M. Cicoli and F. Quevedo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3512},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 21 pages plus references; slight modification of the discussion of inflection point inflation, references added and typos corrected