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Three-form multiplet and Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Most successful models of inflation in supergravity have a shift symmetry for the inflaton and contain a stabilizer field coupled to the inflaton in a particular way. We argue that the natural interpretation of the stabilizer, from the viewpoint of the shift symmetry, is a three-form multiplet. Its coupling to the inflaton is uniquely determined by the shift symmetry and the invariance under three-form gauge transformations and has a natural string theory interpretation.

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@article{arxiv.1407.5688,
  title  = {Three-form multiplet and Inflation},
  author = {Emilian Dudas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5688},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, references added

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