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arxiv: 1603.06631 · v2 · pith:ZH74AUPUnew · submitted 2016-03-21 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO

Kahler Moduli Inflation in Type IIB Compactifications: A random tumble through the Calabi-Yau landscape

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keywords moduliconstraintkahlerinflationlandscapecalabi-yaucompactificationsgeometry
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In this paper we present an initial exploration of the Calabi-Yau landscape in the context of Kahler moduli inflation. We review how the slow-roll requirement on the scalar potential translates to a geometric constraint on the Kahler geometry of the vacuum. This constraint leads to a hard bound on the moduli space geometry and we consider the effects of this constraint on the string landscape that arises in type IIB string compactifications on an O3/O7 orientifold. Most notably we find that the inflationary constraint is independent of the moduli space dimension and only 6.57% of geometries inspected support high-scale Kahler moduli inflation.

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