The swampland conjecture and F-term axion monodromy inflation

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2017)145zbMATH Open1380.85012arXiv1703.05776OpenAlexW3100924221WikidataQ123161326 ScholiaQ123161326MaRDI QIDQ1696338

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Publication date: 14 February 2018

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Abstract: We continue the investigation of F-term axion monodromy inflation in string theory, while seriously taking the issue of moduli stabilization into account. For a number of closed and open string models, we show that they suffer from serious control issues once one is trying to realize trans-Planckian field excursions. More precisely, the flux tuning required to delay the logarithmic scaling of the field distance to a trans-Planckian value cannot be done without leaving the regime where the employed effective supergravity theory is under control. Our findings are consistent with the axionic extension of the Refined Swampland Conjecture, stating that in quantum gravity the effective theory breaks down for a field excursion beyond the Planck scale. Our analysis suggests that models of F-term axion monodromy inflation with a tensor-to-scalar ratio $rgeO(10^{-3})$ cannot be parametrically controlled.

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