Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-02-11
Phys.Rev.D80:083518,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
8 pages, 3 figures; title changed and reference added to match published version in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.083518
The eta problem is one of the most significant obstacles to building a successful inflationary model in string theory. Planck mass suppressed corrections to the inflaton potential generally lead to inflaton masses of order the Hubble scale and generate contributions of order unity to the eta slow roll parameter rendering prolonged slow roll inflation impossible. We demonstrate the severity of this problem in the context of brane anti-brane inflation in a warped throat of a Calabi-Yau flux compactification with all phenomenologically dangerous moduli stabilized. Using exact numerical solutions we show that the eta problem can be avoided in scenarios where the inflaton is non-minimally coupled to gravity and has Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) kinetic term. We show that the resulting cosmic microwave background (CMB) observables such as measures of non-gaussianites can, in principle, serve as a probe of scalar-gravity couplings.
Easson Damien A.
Gregory Ruth
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