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It has recently been appreciated that the conifold modulus plays an important role in string-phenomenological set-ups involving warped throats, both by imposing constraints on model building and for obtaining a 10-dimensional picture of SUSY-breaking. In this note, we point out that the stability of the conifold modulus furthermore prevents large super-Planckian axion monodromy field ranges caused by brane-flux decay processes down warped throats. Our findings imply a significant challenge for concrete string theory embeddings of the inflationary flux-unwinding scenario.
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Scalisi, M., Soler, P., Van Hemelryck, V. et al. Conifold dynamics and axion monodromies. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 133 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2020)133
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