Natural Inflation from Near Alignment in Heterotic String Theory
arXiv:1410.4660 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.083516
Abstract
We propose a model for large field inflation in heterotic string theory. The construction applies the near alignment mechanism of Kim, Nilles, and Peloso. By including gaugino condensates and world-sheet instanton non-perturbative effects, we obtain a large effective axion decay constant.
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