PIRSA:09020005

Warped Wilson Line Inflation

Zavala, I. (2009). Warped Wilson Line Inflation. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09020005

Zavala, Ivonne. Warped Wilson Line Inflation. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 17, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09020005 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09020005,
            doi = {10.48660/09020005},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09020005},
            author = {Zavala, Ivonne},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Warped Wilson Line Inflation},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:09020005 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Ivonne Zavala Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Talk numberPIRSA:09020005
DOI10.48660/09020005
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
Subject

Abstract

I will discuss the possibility that a 'Wilson line' degree of freedom can play the role of an inflaton in a warped flux compactification, in the context of the DBI inflationary scenario. I will show how warped DBI Wilson line inflation offers an attractive alternative to ordinary (position field) DBI inflation, inasmuch as observational and theoretical constraints get considerably relaxed. Thus, besides the large non-Gaussianities produced in DBI scenarios, Wilson lines allow for an observable amount of gravitational waves, within consistent approximations.