Chiral global embedding of Fibre Inflation with $$ \overline{\textrm{D}3} $$ uplift
A bstract We carefully analyse the challenges posed by the construction of type IIB chiral global embeddings of Fibre Inflation with $$ \overline{\textrm{D}3} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mover> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>D</mml:mi> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>¯</mml:mo> </mml:mover> </mml:math> uplift to a de Sitter vacuum. We present an explicit example involving an h 1,1 = 4 Calabi-Yau manifold with a K3 fibration and a del Pezzo divisor supporting non-perturbative effects. The chosen orientifold involution induces O3-planes that can be placed on top of each other at the tip of the throat of a deformed conifold singularity. The D7-brane sector contains standard magnetised branes and a Whitney brane. The former induce chiral matter and generate quantum effects that stabilise the Kähler moduli, while the latter helps to increase the total D3-charge. We study in detail the constraints on the parameter space leading to an observationally viable inflationary dynamics, finding several regions where the effective field theory is under control.
Authors
- Osmin Lacombe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-626X)
- Michele Cicoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-5651)
- Francisco G. Pedro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0921-5417)
- Antonella Grassi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4669-7961)
Institutions
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (IT)
- University of Bologna (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2025-06-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2025)090
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 14.96
Funders
- Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica "Francesco Severi"
- European Commission
- Gruppo Nazionale per le Strutture Algebriche, Geometriche e le loro Applicazioni