Conifold dynamics and axion monodromies
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-12-02 v1
Abstract
It has recently been appreciated that the conifold modulus plays an important role in string-phenomenological set-ups involving warped throats, both by imposing constraints on model building and for obtaining a 10-dimensional picture of SUSY-breaking. In this note, we point out that the stability of the conifold modulus furthermore prevents large super- Planckian axion monodromy field ranges caused by brane-flux decay processes down warped throats. Our findings imply a significant challenge for concrete string theory embeddings of the inflationary flux-unwinding scenario.
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@article{arxiv.2007.15391,
title = {Conifold dynamics and axion monodromies},
author = {Marco Scalisi and Pablo Soler and Vincent Van Hemelryck and Thomas Van Riet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.15391},
year = {2020}
}
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24 pages, 5 figures