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Damien A. Easson *
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Ruth Gregory
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David F. Mota
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Gianmassimo Tasinato
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Ivonne Zavala
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2008/02/010delete
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We study the cosmological implications of including angular motion in the Dirac-Born-Infeld brane inflation scenario. The non-canonical kinetic terms of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action give an interesting alternative to slow-roll inflation, and cycling branes can drive periods of accelerated expansion in the Universe. We present explicit numerical solutions demonstrating brane inflation in the Klebanov-Strassler throat. We find that demanding sufficient inflation takes place in the throat is in conflict with keeping the brane's total energy low enough that local gravitational back-reaction on the Calabi-Yau manifold can be safely ignored. We deduce that spinflation (brane inflation with angular momentum) can ease this tension by providing extra e-foldings at the start of inflation. Cosmological expansion rapidly damps the angular momentum causing an exit to a more conventional brane inflation scenario. Finally, we set up a general framework for cosmological perturbation theory in this scenario, where we have multi-field non-standard kinetic term inflation.
Keywords:
cosmology with extra dimensions
cosmological perturbation theory
string theory and cosmology
inflation
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
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