Fibre Inflation Meets Quintessence: Implications of Perturbative Stabilisation

TL;DR

This paper explores a novel fibre inflation model within perturbative large volume scenarios, incorporating modulus redefinition and quintessence to explain cosmic acceleration, and aligns inflationary predictions with recent cosmological data.

Contribution

It introduces a new fibre inflation framework using perturbative stabilization and modulus redefinition, integrating quintessence for late-time acceleration.

Findings

Spectral index matches ACT data

Tensor-to-scalar ratio in the range 0.008-0.01

Quintessence behavior consistent with dark energy observations

Abstract

In this paper, we have discovered a new avenue of fibre inflation in perturbative large volume scenario (pLVS) due to the redefinition of the base modulus. pLVS offers a novel regime where large volume of the internal space is guaranteed without the need of non-perturbative effects. In this setup, we study the possibility where a base redefinition allows to assess different versions of fibre inflation whose spectral index aligns with Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data and produces tensor-to-scalar ratio in the range $0.008\lesssim r\lesssim 0.01$ in different setups we have considered. The leading order flat direction - which in our case is the fibre modulus - is lifted with the combinations of string loop corrections, leading order $\alpha^{\prime 3}$$R^4$-correction, higher derivative $F^{4}$ corrections as well as our new ingredient redefinition of the modulus. Since recent Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) results appear to favour a dynamical explanation for late-time acceleration over a simple cosmological constant, exploring quintessence offers a more suitable approach. In this lore, we also examine the quintessence sector to complete our model and account for both early- and late-time cosmic acceleration. In this framework, the poly-instanton correction generates a potential along the axionic directions, and we find that the resulting quintessence behaviour and the subsequent cosmological predictions about dark matter closely resemble the predictions of the original fibre inflation scenario studied earlier.