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A systematic analysis of possibilities for realizing single-field F-term axion monodromy inflation via the flux-induced superpotential in type IIB string theory is performed. In this well-defined setting the conditions arising from moduli stabilization are taken into account, where we focus on the complex-structure moduli but ignore the Kähler moduli sector. Our analysis leads to a no-go theorem, if the inflaton involves the universal axion. We furthermore construct an explicit example of F-term axion monodromy inflation, in which a single axion-like field is hierarchically lighter than all remaining complex-structure moduli.
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Blumenhagen, R., Herschmann, D. & Plauschinn, E. The challenge of realizing F-term axion monodromy inflation in string theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 7 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)007
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