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Two-field high-scale inflation in a sub-Planckian region of field space

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 81, 期 10, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.103535

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  1. National Science Foundation [NSF-PHY-0757868]
  2. Swedish Research Council (VR)
  3. Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)

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We present a simple two-field model of inflation and show how to embed it in string theory as a straightforward generalization of axion monodromy models. Phenomenologically, the predictions are equivalent to those of chaotic inflation, and, in particular, include observably large tensor modes. The whole high-scale large-field inflationary dynamics takes place within a region of field space that is parametrically sub-Planckian in diameter, hence improving our ability to control quantum corrections and achieve slow-roll inflation.

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