Axion decay constants away from the lamppost
It is unknown whether a bound on axion field ranges exists within quantum gravity. We study axion field ranges using extended supersymmetry, in particular allowing an analysis within strongly coupled regions of moduli space. We apply this strategy to Calabi-Yau compactifications with one and two Käh...
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| description | It is unknown whether a bound on axion field ranges exists within quantum gravity. We study axion field ranges using extended supersymmetry, in particular allowing an analysis within strongly coupled regions of moduli space. We apply this strategy to Calabi-Yau compactifications with one and two Kähler moduli. We relate the maximally allowable decay constant to geometric properties of the underlying Calabi-Yau geometry. In all examples we find a maximal field range close to the reduced Planck mass (with the largest field range being 3.25 MP). On this perspective, field ranges relate to the intersection and instanton numbers of the underlying Calabi-Yau geometry. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b5c96c04-9f81-41c3-b210-76ced2d511f72022-03-27T04:36:19ZAxion decay constants away from the lamppostJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b5c96c04-9f81-41c3-b210-76ced2d511f7Symplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer Berlin Heidelberg2016Conlon, JKrippendorf, SIt is unknown whether a bound on axion field ranges exists within quantum gravity. We study axion field ranges using extended supersymmetry, in particular allowing an analysis within strongly coupled regions of moduli space. We apply this strategy to Calabi-Yau compactifications with one and two Kähler moduli. We relate the maximally allowable decay constant to geometric properties of the underlying Calabi-Yau geometry. In all examples we find a maximal field range close to the reduced Planck mass (with the largest field range being 3.25 MP). On this perspective, field ranges relate to the intersection and instanton numbers of the underlying Calabi-Yau geometry. |
| spellingShingle | Conlon, J Krippendorf, S Axion decay constants away from the lamppost |
| title | Axion decay constants away from the lamppost |
| title_full | Axion decay constants away from the lamppost |
| title_fullStr | Axion decay constants away from the lamppost |
| title_full_unstemmed | Axion decay constants away from the lamppost |
| title_short | Axion decay constants away from the lamppost |
| title_sort | axion decay constants away from the lamppost |
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