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STAG Research Centre

String Theory seminar - Marjorie Schillo Seminar

Time:
13:00 - 14:00
Date:
9 November 2016
Venue:
54/10037(10B)

For more information regarding this seminar, please email Francesco Aprile, Gavin Hartnett at [email protected], [email protected] .

Event details

A new top-down model of inflation

I will review the mechanism of brane-flux annihilation in which D-brane charge in a flux background can dissolve and discharge Ramond-Ramond flux. A dynamical brane mediates the brane-flux annihilation as it moves across a compact internal cycle. This mechanism has recently been extended such that many units of flux can be discharged in a "flux cascade." The flux cascade can be used to reduce vacuum energy and give rise to 60 efolds of inflation.

Speaker information

Marjorie Schillo , KU Leuven, Belgium.

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