2008/07/31 by Aalok Misra, Pramod Shukla
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.10.022
published as Nucl.Phys.B810:174-192,2009 · 1+19 pages, LaTeX; some changes in slow-roll inflationary scenarios' results
openalex publication_date 2008/11/08 · arxiv created 2009/12/11 · arxiv updated 2010/01/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Developing on the ideas of (section 4 of) [1] and [2] and using the formalisms of [3] and [4], after inclusion of perturbative and non-perturbative alpha' corrections to the Kaehler potential and (D1- and D3-) instanton generated superpotential, we show the possibility of getting finite values for the non-linear parameter fNL while looking for non-Gaussianities in type IIB compactifications on orientifolds of the Swiss Cheese Calabi-Yau WCP4[1,1,1,6,9] in the L(arge) V(olume) S(cenarios) limit. First we show that in the context of multi-field slow-roll inflation, for the Calabi-Yau volume V~105 and D3-instanton number ns~10 along with Ne~18, one can realize fNL~0.03, and for Calabi-Yau volume V~106 with D3-instanton number ns~10 resulting in number of e-foldings Ne~60, one can realize fNL~0.01. Further we show that with the slow-roll conditions violated and for the number of the D3-instanton wrappings ns ~O(1), one can realize fNL ~O(1). Using general considerations and some algebraic geometric assumptions, we show that with requiring a "freezeout" of curvature perturbations at super horizon scales, it is possible to get tensor-scalar ratio r ~O(10-3) with the loss of scale invariance |nR-1|=0.01 and one can obtain fNL ~O(10-2) as well in the context of slow-roll inflation scenarios in the same Swiss-Cheese setup. For all our calculations the large values of the genus-zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants for compact projective varieties, play in important role. We also make some observations pertaining to the possibility of the axionic inflaton also being a cold dark matter candidate as well as a quintessence field used for explaining dark energy.