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Inflation from Flux Cascades
Guido D'Amico, Roberto Gobbetti, Matthew Kleban +1
When electric-type flux threads compact extra dimensions, a quantum nucleation event can break a flux line and initiate a cascade that unwinds many units of flux. Here, we present…
Unwinding Inflation
Guido D'Amico, Roberto Gobbetti, Matthew Kleban +1
Higher-form flux that extends in all 3+1 dimensions of spacetime is a source of positive vacuum energy that can drive meta-stable eternal inflation. If the flux also threads compac…
Spatial Curvature Falsifies Eternal Inflation
Matthew Kleban, Marjorie Schillo
Inflation creates large-scale cosmological density perturbations that are characterized by an isotropic, homogeneous, and Gaussian random distribution about a locally flat backgrou…