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Robust Inflation from Fibrous Strings
C. P. Burgess, M. Cicoli, S. de Alwis +1
Successful inflationary models should (i) describe the data well; (ii) arise generically from sensible UV completions; (iii) be insensitive to detailed fine-tunings of parameters a…
EFT for Vortices with Dilaton-dependent Localized Flux
C. P. Burgess, Ross Diener, M. Williams
We study how codimension-two objects like vortices back-react gravitationally with their environment in theories (such as 4D or higher-dimensional supergravity) where the bulk is d…
Self-Tuning at Large (Distances): 4D Description of Runaway Dilaton Capture
C. P. Burgess, Ross Diener, M. Williams
We complete here a three-part study (see also arXiv:1506.08095 and 1508.00856) of how codimension-two objects back-react gravitationally with their environment, with particular int…
The Gravity of Dark Vortices: Effective Field Theory for Branes and Strings Carrying Localized Flux
C. P. Burgess, Ross Diener, M. Williams
A Nielsen-Olesen vortex usually sits in an environment that expels the flux that is confined to the vortex, so flux is not present both inside and outside. We construct vortices fo…
Inflation by Alignment
C. P. Burgess, Diederik Roest
Pseudo-Goldstone bosons (pGBs) can provide technically natural inflatons, as has been comparatively well-explored in the simplest axion examples. Although inflationary success requ…
Inflating with Large Effective Fields
C. P. Burgess, M. Cicoli, F. Quevedo +1
We re-examine large scalar fields within effective field theory, in particular focussing on the issues raised by their use in inflationary models (as suggested by BICEP2 to obtain…