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Global Orientifolded Quivers with Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-12-05 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We describe global embeddings of fractional D3 branes at orientifolded singularities in type IIB flux compactifications. We present an explicit Calabi-Yau example where the chiral visible sector lives on a local orientifolded quiver while non-perturbative effects, α\alpha' corrections and a T-brane hidden sector lead to full closed string moduli stabilisation in a de Sitter vacuum. The same model can also successfully give rise to inflation driven by a del Pezzo divisor. Our model represents the first explicit Calabi-Yau example featuring both an inflationary and a chiral visible sector.

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@article{arxiv.1706.06128,
  title  = {Global Orientifolded Quivers with Inflation},
  author = {Michele Cicoli and Iñaki García-Etxebarria and Christoph Mayrhofer and Fernando Quevedo and Pramod Shukla and Roberto Valandro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.06128},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

33 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables; new inflationary plots and typos corrected; references added

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