Cosmological inflation with orbifold moduli as inflatons

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作者
Bailin, D [1 ]
Kraniotis, GV
Love, A
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[1] Univ Sussex, Ctr Theoret Phys, Brighton BN1 9QJ, E Sussex, England
[2] Univ London Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Dept Phys, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01328-8
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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Cosmological inflation is studied in the case where the inflaton is the overall modulus T for an orbifold. General forms of the (non-perturbative) superpotential are considered to ensure that G = K + ln\W\(2) is modular invariant. We find generically that these models do not produce a potential flat enough for slow roll to a supersymmetric minimum, although we do find a model which produces up to 20 e-folds of inflation to a non-supersymmetric minimum. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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