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hep-th2014★ 44 cited
Special Points of Inflation in Flux Compactifications
Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Thomas W. Grimm, Irene Valenzuela
We study the realisation of axion inflation models in the complex structure moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau threefolds and fourfolds. The axions arise close to special points of these…
hep-th2014★ 11 cited
Heterotic NS5-branes from closed string tachyon condensation
Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Miguel Montero, Angel Uranga
We show how to construct the familiar heterotic NS5 brane as a topological soliton in a supercritical version of heterotic string theory. Closed string tachyon condensation removes…