Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-11-16
JHEP 0712:095,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
22 pages, 1 figure; v3: Updated to match version published in JHEP, references added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/095
We prove that inflation is forbidden in the most well understood class of semi-realistic type IIA string compactifications: Calabi-Yau compactifications with only standard NS-NS 3-form flux, R-R fluxes, D6-branes and O6-planes at large volume and small string coupling. With these ingredients, the first slow-roll parameter satisfies epsilon >= 27/13 whenever V > 0, ruling out both inflation (including brane/anti-brane inflation) and de Sitter vacua in this limit. Our proof is based on the dependence of the 4-dimensional potential on the volume and dilaton moduli in the presence of fluxes and branes. We also describe broader classes of IIA models which may include cosmologies with inflation and/or de Sitter vacua. The inclusion of extra ingredients, such as NS 5-branes and geometric or non-geometric NS-NS fluxes, evades the assumptions used in deriving the no-go theorem. We focus on NS 5-branes and outline how such ingredients may prove fruitful for cosmology, but we do not provide an explicit model. We contrast the results of our IIA analysis with the rather different situation in IIB.
Hertzberg Mark Peter
Kachru Shamit
Taylor Washington
Tegmark Max
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