Flux flattening in axion monodromy inflation

Abstract String theory models of axion monodromy inflation exhibit scalar potentials which are quadratic for small values of the inflaton field and evolve to a more complicated function for large field values. Oftentimes the large field behaviour is gentler than quadratic, lowering the tensor-to-sca...

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Main Authors: Aitor Landete, Fernando Marchesano, Gary Shiu, Gianluca Zoccarato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-06-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)071