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Global orientifolded quivers with inflation

  • Michele Cicoli  ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-56511,2,3,
  • Iñaki García-Etxebarria4,
  • Christoph Mayrhofer5,
  • Fernando Quevedo3,6,
  • Pramod Shukla3 &
  • …
  • Roberto Valandro7,8,3 

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Abstract

We describe global embeddings of fractional D3 branes at orientifolded singularities in type IIB flux compactifications. We present an explicit Calabi-Yau example where the chiral visible sector lives on a local orientifolded quiver while non-perturbative effects, α′ corrections and a T-brane hidden sector lead to full closed string moduli stabilisation in a de Sitter vacuum. The same model can also successfully give rise to inflation driven by a del Pezzo divisor. Our model represents the first explicit Calabi-Yau example featuring both an inflationary and a chiral visible sector.

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    Michele Cicoli

  2. INFN, Sezione di Bologna, viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    Michele Cicoli

  3. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11, Trieste, 34151, Italy

    Michele Cicoli, Fernando Quevedo, Pramod Shukla & Roberto Valandro

  4. Max Planck Institute for Physics, Föhringer Ring 6, 80805, Munich, Germany

    Iñaki García-Etxebarria

  5. Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Theresienstrae 37, 80333, München, Germany

    Christoph Mayrhofer

  6. DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, U.K.

    Fernando Quevedo

  7. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34151, Trieste, Italy

    Roberto Valandro

  8. INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127, Trieste, Italy

    Roberto Valandro

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Cicoli, M., García-Etxebarria, I., Mayrhofer, C. et al. Global orientifolded quivers with inflation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 134 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)134

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  • Compactification and String Models
  • Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
  • Flux compactifications
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