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hep-th2014★ 1 cited

Singular foliations for M-theory compactification

Elena Mirela Babalic, Calin Iuliu Lazaroiu

We use the theory of singular foliations to study compactifications of eleven-dimensional supergravity on eight-manifolds down to spaces, allowing…

hep-th2014★ 21 cited

Foliated eight-manifolds for M-theory compactification

Elena Mirela Babalic, Calin Iuliu Lazaroiu

We characterize compact eight-manifolds M which arise as internal spaces in N=1 flux compactifications of M-theory down to AdS3 using the theory of foliations, for the case when th…

hep-th2014★ 22 cited

On the Vlasov equation for Schwinger pair production in a time-dependent electric field

Adolfo Huet, Sang Pyo Kim, Christian Schubert

Schwinger pair creation in a purely time-dependent electric field can be described through a quantum Vlasov equation describing the time evolution of the single-particle momentum d…

hep-th2014★ 22 cited

Higher derivatives and power spectrum in effective single field inflation

Jinn-Ouk Gong, Min-Seok Seo, Spyros Sypsas

We study next-to-leading corrections to the effective action of the curvature perturbation obtained by integrating out the coupled heavy isocurvature perturbation. These correction…

hep-th2014★ 195 cited

Natural inflation with multiple sub-Planckian axions

Kiwoon Choi, Hyungjin Kim, Seokhoon Yun

We extend the Kim-Nilles-Peloso (KNP) alignment mechanism for natural inflation to models with axions, which obtains a super-Planckian effective axion decay constant $f_{\tex…

hep-th2014★ 39 cited

String theoretic QCD axions in the light of PLANCK and BICEP2

Kiwoon Choi, Kwang Sik Jeong, Min-Seok Seo

The QCD axion solving the strong CP problem may originate from antisymmetric tensor gauge fields in compactified string theory, with a decay constant around the GUT scale. Such pos…