10.80056/08060099
Perimeter Institute
Perimeter Institute
Wilson Line Inflation
Perimeter Institute
2008
Video Recording
Quantum Fields and Strings
Particle Physics
Cosmology
2008-06-06T15:15:00
I will present a model of inflation in string theory, where the inflaton field corresponds to a Wilson line in the worldvolume of a D-brane, and in the presence of magnetic flux. Inflation ends in a hybrid fashion, when the Wilson line achieves a critical value and an open string mode becomes tachyonic. This scenario predicts a nearly flat, or red tilted, spectrum of scalar perturbations, with negligible primordial gravitational waves. Interestingly, there is a simple compactification in which the eta-problem, appearing in models of brane inflation, is absent.