Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-01-30
Phys.Rev.D80:043506,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
38 pages, 1 figure, Journal version in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.043506
We consider a probe codimension-2 brane inflation scenario in a warped six-dimensional flux compactification. Our background model is Salam-Sezgin gauged supergravity with codimension-2 brane sources, which preserve N=1 supersymmetry. The model has a modulus, which is stabilised by means of a cap regularisation of the codimension-2 singularities, with appropriate dilaton potentials on the ring interface of the caps with the bulk. We discuss the cosmological evolution of the world-volume of a probe codimension-2 brane when it moves along the radial direction of the internal space. In order to have slow-roll inflation, one needs the warping of the internal space to be weak, in contrast to the recent string inflation constructions with strong warping. We discuss the parameter range that the inflation is in agreement with the observationally inferred parameters and which furthermore is consistent with the probe brane approximation. We provide arguments pointing that the probe brane approximation is a good assumption if the probe brane is not exactly conical and show with a multibrane solution that the mild warping needed for a slow-roll inflation is not spoiled by the probe brane.
Lee Hyun Min
Papazoglou Antonios
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