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Challenges for Moduli Stabilization and String Cosmology near the Conifold
Ralph Blumenhagen, Daniela Herschmann, Florian Wolf
This brief article reviews a recently proposed scenario of moduli stabilization constructed in the vicinity of a conifold locus in the complex structure moduli space. We discuss ty…
String Moduli Stabilization at the Conifold
Ralph Blumenhagen, Daniela Herschmann, Florian Wolf
We study moduli stabilization for type IIB orientifolds compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds in the region close to conifold singularities in the complex structure moduli space. T…
Large field inflation and string moduli stabilization
Ralph Blumenhagen, Anamaria Font, Michael Fuchs +2
Recent developments on large scale string moduli stabilization via non-geometric fluxes are reviewed. In the framework of type IIB orientifolds on fluxed Calabi-Yau manifolds, the…
The Flux-Scaling Scenario: De Sitter Uplift and Axion Inflation
Ralph Blumenhagen, Cesar Damian, Anamaria Font +2
Non-geometric flux-scaling vacua provide promising starting points to realize axion monodromy inflation via the F-term scalar potential. We show that these vacua can be uplifted to…
A Flux-Scaling Scenario for High-Scale Moduli Stabilization in String Theory
Ralph Blumenhagen, Anamaria Font, Michael Fuchs +4
Tree-level moduli stabilization via geometric and non-geometric fluxes in type IIB orientifolds on Calabi-Yau manifolds is investigated. The focus is on stable non-supersymmetric m…
Towards Axionic Starobinsky-like Inflation in String Theory
Ralph Blumenhagen, Anamaria Font, Michael Fuchs +2
It is shown that Starobinsky-like potentials can be realized in non-geometric flux compactifications of string theory, where the inflaton involves an axion whose shift symmetry can…