Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/014
Keywords
inflation; string theory and cosmology; gravity; quantum black holes
Funding
- Goran Gustafsson Foundation
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In this paper we study gauged M-flation. an inflationary model in which inflation is driven by three N x N scalar field matrices in the adjoint representation of U(N) gauge group. We focus our study on the gauged M-flation model which could be derived front the dynamics of a stack of D3-branes in appropriate background flux. The background inflationary dynamics is unaltered compared to the ungauged case of [1], while the spectrum of spectator species, the isocurvature modes, differs from the ungauged case. Presence of a large number of spectators, although irrelevant to the slow-roll inflationary dynamics, has been argued to lower the effective UV cutoff Lambda of the theory from the Planck mass M-pl, putting into question the main advantage of M-flation in not having super-Planckian field values and unnaturally small couplings. Through a careful analysis of the spectrum of the spectators we argue that contrary to what happens in N-flation models, M-flation is still UV safe with the modified (reduced) effective UV cutoff Lambda, which we show to be of order (0.5 - 1) x 10(-1)M(pl). Moreover, we argue that the string scale in our gauged M-flation model is larger than Lambda by a factor of 10 and hence one can also neglect stringy effects. We also comment on the stability of classical inflationary paths in the gauged M-flation.
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