2024/12/11 by Michele Cicoli, Antonella Grassi, Cicoli, Michele +5 · 11 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Embedding #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Inflation (cosmology) #Mathematical physics #Overline #Particle physics #Physics #Theoretical physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep06(2025)090
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2025(6) (Springer Nature)
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A bstract We carefully analyse the challenges posed by the construction of type IIB chiral global embeddings of Fibre Inflation with \textrmD3 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mover> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>D</mml:mi> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>¯</mml:mo> </mml:mover> </mml:math> uplift to a de Sitter vacuum. We present an explicit example involving an h 1,1 = 4 Calabi-Yau manifold with a K3 fibration and a del Pezzo divisor supporting non-perturbative effects. The chosen orientifold involution induces O3-planes that can be placed on top of each other at the tip of the throat of a deformed conifold singularity. The D7-brane sector contains standard magnetised branes and a Whitney brane. The former induce chiral matter and generate quantum effects that stabilise the Kähler moduli, while the latter helps to increase the total D3-charge. We study in detail the constraints on the parameter space leading to an observationally viable inflationary dynamics, finding several regions where the effective field theory is under control.