| RHCPP 98-22T (PUB) |
| August 1998 |
| Cosmological inflation with orbifold moduli as inflatons |
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| D Bailin, G V Kraniotis, A Love |
| Abstract |
| Cosmological inflation is studied in the case where the inflaton is the overall modulus T for an orbifold. General forms of the (non-perturbative) superpotential are considered to ensure that G = K+ In | W |2 is modular invariant. We find generically that these models do not produce a potential flat enough for slow roll to a supersymmetric minimum although we do find a model which produces up to 20 e-folds of inflation to a non-supersymmetric minimum. |
| Available format: Postscript |
| Also published as: |
| Phys Lett B443 111-120 (1998) |