Large field inflation and string moduli stabilization

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in stabilizing string moduli using non-geometric fluxes in type IIB orientifolds, highlighting flux-scaling minima as a foundation for controlled large field inflation models.

Contribution

It introduces flux-scaling minima in string compactifications as a basis for developing large field inflation models with stabilized moduli.

Findings

Flux-scaling minima enable controlled large field inflation models.

Non-geometric fluxes are effective for moduli stabilization.

Framework supports parametrically controlled F-term axion monodromy inflation.

Abstract

Recent developments on large scale string moduli stabilization via non-geometric fluxes are reviewed. In the framework of type IIB orientifolds on fluxed Calabi-Yau manifolds, the existence of so-called flux-scaling minima provides a good starting point for the realization of parametrically controlled models of F-term axion monodromy inflation.