Inflation in random landscapes with two energy scales

@article{BlancoPillado2017InflationIR,
title={Inflation in random landscapes with two energy scales},
journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
year={2017},
volume={2018},
pages={1-31}
}
• Published 1 November 2017
• Physics
• Journal of High Energy Physics
A bstractWe investigate inflation in a multi-dimensional landscape with a hierarchy of energy scales, motivated by the string theory, where the energy scale of Kahler moduli is usually assumed to be much lower than that of complex structure moduli and dilaton field. We argue that in such a landscape, the dynamics of slow-roll inflation is governed by the low-energy potential, while the initial condition for inflation are determined by tunneling through high-energy barriers. We then use the…
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