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Higgs-otic Inflation and Moduli Stabilization
Sjoerd Bielleman, Luis E. Ibanez, Francisco G. Pedro +2
We study closed-string moduli stabilization in Higgs-otic inflation in Type IIB orientifold backgrounds with fluxes. In this setup large-field inflation is driven by the vacuum ene…
Backreaction Issues in Axion Monodromy and Minkowski 4-forms
Irene Valenzuela
We clarify the differences between the usual Kaloper-Sorbo description of axion monodromy and the effective axionic potential in terms of Minkowski 4-forms derived in string compac…
The DBI Action, Higher-derivative Supergravity, and Flattening Inflaton Potentials
Sjoerd Bielleman, Luis E. Ibanez, Francisco G. Pedro +2
In string theory compactifications it is common to find an effective Lagrangian for the scalar fields with a non-canonical kinetic term. We study the effective action of the scalar…