Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-02-14
JCAP 0704:019,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
1+21 pages, 2 figures, v2: Typos corrected, v3: Typos, very minor corrections, reference added, to appear in JCAP
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2007/04/019
We explore the possibility of obtaining inflation in weakly coupled heterotic string theory, where the model dependent axions are responsible for driving inflation. This model can be considered as a certain extrapolation of $m^{2}\phi^{2}$-inflation, and is an attempt to explicitly realize the so called N-flation proposal in string theory. The instanton generated potential for the axions essentially has two parameters; a natural mass scale $M$ and the string coupling $g_{s}$. For isotropic compactifications leading to of order $\mathcal{O} (10^4)$ axions in the four dimensional spectrum we find that with $(M, g_{s})\simeq(M_{GUT}, 0.5)$ the observed temperature fluctuations in the CMB are correctly reproduced. We assume an initially random distribution for the vevs of the axions. The spectral index, $n_{s}$, is generically more red than for $m^{2}\phi^{2}$-inflation. The greater the vevs, the more red the spectral index becomes. Allowing for a wide range of vevs 55 $e$-foldings from the end of inflation, we find $0.946\lesssim n_{s} \lesssim 0.962$. The tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, is more sensitive to the vevs, but typically smaller than in $m^{2}\phi^{2}$-inflation. Furthermore, in the regime where the leading order theory is valid, $r$ is bounded by $r < 0.10$. The spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio are correlated. For example, $n_{s}\simeq 0.951$ corresponds to $r\simeq 0.036$.
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