Hybrid inflation and waterfall field in string theory from D7-branes
Ignatios Antoniadis, Osmin Lacombe, G.K. Leontaris
Abstract
A bstract We present an explicit string realisation of a cosmological inflationary scenario we proposed recently within the framework of type IIB flux compactifications in the presence of three magnetised D 7-brane stacks. Inflation takes place around a metastable de Sitter vacuum. The inflaton is identified with the volume modulus and has a potential with a very shallow minimum near the maximum. Inflation ends due to the presence of “waterfall” fields that drive the evolution of the Universe from a nearby saddle point towards a global minimum with tuneable vacuum energy describing the present state of our Universe.
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsDe Sitter universeInflation (cosmology)InflatonString theorySaddle pointSaddleTheoretical physicsString (physics)Brane cosmologyWaterfallVacuum energyUniverseQuantum mechanicsGeometryArchaeologyMathematical optimizationHistoryMathematicsBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena