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We revisit phenomenological as well as string-theoretical aspects of D-brane inflation cosmological models. Phenomenologically these models stand out on par with α-attractors, as models with Planck-compatible values of ns, moving down to the sweet spot in the data with decreasing value of r. On the formal side we present a new supersymmetric version of these models in the context of de Sitter supergravity with a nilpotent multiplet and volume modulus stabilization. The geometry of the nilpotent multiplet is evaluated in the framework of string theory.
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Kallosh, R., Linde, A. & Yamada, Y. Planck 2018 and brane inflation revisited. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 8 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2019)008
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